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3 edits | I had this problem
One of the best things about blogs are the abilty to edit, create, and modify the content on the fly.
The worst things can be abuse sometimes. I was having a huge issue with spam postings. And being the person I was I just couldn't leave them there, so I was spending hours deleting crap using MT's clunky interface and rebuilding.
So I started banning IP's every time. Worked for a while but then they started coming in from everywhere (always over seas). Damn bastards had gotten more clever and were using hijacked computers...and of course MT doesn't allow for blocking /24's. Even closing the post's after they were spammed didn't stop the flow.
I looked into using the spam black list, and all the other stuff. But eventually I came across what I found to be an easier solution (at least to stop those times when suddenly you have 100 emails notifying you of a post) than getting the black list to work.
Rename the "mt-comments.cgi" file. Update your templates and rebuilt. The directions are here and it worked like a charm....
..at least until they find another way to nail blog's...the only difference is I won't leave their crap in mine. |
