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Keeping out the Spam... - 5/14/2009 11:37:29
I was going to use the word Russians instead of Spam above but, in these hysterically sensitive times I thought that I'd get sued for Rascism - and Outfront get thrown into the suit to. You know how full of Pathos things can be and, are!
Anyways, If you think that a lot of your website form spam is coming from - Russia - for example (and mine does) then here's a tip that works for me. It dropped my akismet spam stats from 100's a day down to 0. And that was just on a blog site. When the technique is added to a couple of websites too the effectiveness is most pleasurable and virtually unmeasurable.
The answers for me were twofold and produced incredibly effective anti-spam results both from my website forms and my outlook email.
The first solution was to find most of the Russian IP blocks and deny these IP's access to my sites in the htaccess file. My anti-spam lines in htaccess look like below:
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 81.20.160.0/20
deny from 81.20.192.0/20
deny from 91.144.133.0/20
deny from 85.10.202.0/20
allow from all
</Limit>
The second technique - if you use MS Outlook as your email client - is to go to your Outlook Junk-Email settings and tick the box "Block Top Level Domain" Box for .RU
As an aside I also block all email from @gmail.com too. Harsh I know but, funnily enough, life still goes on really successfully and, the Big G. will not penalize you to Page 987 if you block email from @gmail.com - good question though!!!
Hopefully these two or three free and successful anti-spam techniques will work for you too. Good Luck.
< Message edited by michaelea -- 5/14/2009 11:43:38 >
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RE: Keeping out the Spam... - 5/14/2009 12:18:47
Well, there's always that too ... :)
How do I make a Wordpress comment form "more secure"?
Literally I had a WP site up for less than two weeks and akismet was catching like 300 spam comments a day. Geez, not even the Big G. knew about the site! cannonbeachlive.com - under dev. - nobody knows about it except the spam bots from Russia!
It's not just the email in my inbox, it's the spam management too. I can't even imagine what it's like in a popular forum such as this. How much valuable time is spent managing/deleting/programming against spam in these forums?
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RE: Keeping out the Spam... - 5/14/2009 17:01:48
Yeah Bobby, thanks for the "Contact your Host" tip.
Pacifier/iinet and Squirrel Mail specifically (I have a lot of household clients using this host) are, well, atrocious. And convincing my Host (GDaddy) that Symantec, McAfee and GD themselves are spammers and "Wolves in Sheeps clothing" is not a popular point of view :)
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RE: Keeping out the Spam... - 5/14/2009 17:26:38
Yes, Spammers finding workarounds for Captchas is especially demoralizing.
Just after you've been through the process and feeling proud of yourself for setting up a working PHP captcha - then a li'l bit of spam starts and......... well, I wish I had the programming skills to "nail-er-down" a li'l more but, I don't.
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