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I may be wright, and I may be wrong, but the Spam Poison link on top of my blog seems to have a very nice side-effect on the comment-spam; it looks like my blog is being blacklisted by the spammers and their robots. While the number of visitors and pageviews over the last months has increased, the comment spam has come down from a couple of hundreds per day to almost zero.
I've been thinking about it, but I can't find another reason. When I moved to my new server two months ago on this very day, I was forced to remove the Captcha! plugin after having rebuilded MovableType on the new HP-UX server. Because of security issues Verio does not allow (yet) the installation of the Perl Image::Magick module on HP-UX hosting plans. This module parses the little PNG with the security code commenters had to enter before being able to comment. I know there are more options - MT BlackList, renaming the comment and the trackback cgi's, IP-banning - but, although initially I felt quiet naked without Captcha!, I decided to keep the comment system open, and see what would happen. There's only one protection running now; if a bot starts to flood, after a few comments in a certain number of seconds the IP-number of the commenter is automatically banned my MovableType, and that happens every once in a while.
That's all, so I was wondering what the heck and why. Why I'm I not bothered anymore? Must be SpamPoison then, wich has nothing to do with comment spam, but everything with spam harvesters.
The Spam Poison links will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains :-) This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value, while it will pollute their databases in such a way that they're out of bussiness for at least a while, because they have to clean up their databases.
Now, I'm I right? Is SmamPoison working so good that the spammers have started blacklisting blogs with SpamPoison links?
Posted by Leon at June 14, 2005 10:04 AM
Hello everyone! Who knows where to upload the film Avatar?
I even bought the film Avatar for a SMS to http://rsskino.ru/kinofilm/avatar.html , the link was, but download fails, the system will boot quite strange cocoa something.
Men, advise where to normal as quickly download film avatar?
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They doubtless are.
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I have the original iphone, and it's unlocked so I dont want to update it or it will brick, but some games require at least version 2.0, so how do I find out if I have that or not? Thanks.
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Posted by: Wendy at July 30, 2009 02:22 AM
Hello!
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Posted by: vaxirrelawade at October 10, 2008 01:41 PM
Hi
Nice site!
G'night
Posted by: slityGedseimi at October 1, 2008 02:03 PM
This probably works slightly better than captcha but neither method really works well. What spammers are doing with Captcha is very clever. They own porn sites. When they have their members log in, they display a yahoo captcha to the member. They use the response to create a spam email account.
Posted by: Christoffer at June 11, 2008 08:17 PM
hi,
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Posted by: bill at July 6, 2006 04:33 AM
Honestly; I've got no idea. I've been Googling for a while to find an answer, but tot no avail so far. No e-mail adresses on the spam poison site (wonder why :-), and no user forum. I'll keep looking, cause I'm intrigued by the question.
Posted by: leon at November 12, 2005 11:32 AM
Does anybody know how this Spam Poison avoids getting blacklisted in spambots? I mean in it extremely easy for a bot to ignore links like "lithuanian-50066251767.spampoison.com". Isn't it?
Posted by: Saulelis at November 12, 2005 02:50 AM
Leon, you should also check the Honey Pot plugin. Its the first and so far only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use. When you start using the Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your blog. If one of these addresses begins receiving email Honey Pot can tell that the messages are spam, and also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.
Posted by: Patrick Gerrard at June 16, 2005 07:49 AM