Comments on: My fight against spam http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/ design. business. mac love. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:47:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Geoff Taylor http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-6009 Geoff Taylor Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:35:08 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-6009 A few plugins that you might want to look in to: Moderate Brief Comments - simple as that http://guff.szub.net/download/moderate-brief-comments.php Impostercide - no one else can post as 'luis' here http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/11/21/impostercide-12/ Comment Authorization - sends comment poster an email with a unique link, if clicked their comment is immediately posted, otherwise comment goes in to moderation http://www.skippy.net/blog/2004/04/27/plugin-comment-authorization/ htakismet - creates a list of blocking rules for your .htaccess file based on Akismet kills http://nybblelabs.org.uk/projects/htakismet/ WP-ContactForm - in case you don't mind using a contact form http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/ A few plugins that you might want to look in to:

Moderate Brief Comments – simple as that
http://guff.szub.net/download/moderate-brief-comments.php

Impostercide – no one else can post as ‘luis’ here
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/11/21/impostercide-12/

Comment Authorization – sends comment poster an email with a unique link, if clicked their
comment is immediately posted, otherwise comment goes in to moderation
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2004/04/27/plugin-comment-authorization/

htakismet – creates a list of blocking rules for your .htaccess file based on Akismet kills
http://nybblelabs.org.uk/projects/htakismet/

WP-ContactForm – in case you don’t mind using a contact form
http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/

]]> By: Justin http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-4121 Justin Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:29:31 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-4121 I should say that this doesn't help your current problems, but if you change your address, you can probably avoid new spam. I don't recall getting any at my addresses. I should say that this doesn’t help your current problems, but if you change your address, you can probably avoid new spam. I don’t recall getting any at my addresses.

]]> By: Justin http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-4120 Justin Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:28:43 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-4120 Hey Luis... on my WP install, I used a plugin that obfuscates email addresses with some encoding, so that they look normal in the browser but can't be scraped from the site by bots. http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#obfuscateemail Hey Luis… on my WP install, I used a plugin that obfuscates email addresses with some encoding, so that they look normal in the browser but can’t be scraped from the site by bots.

http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#obfuscateemail

]]> By: luis http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-3664 luis Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:22:25 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-3664 Tom: I haven't taken much advantage of Pair's spam blocking, but I do get emails marked as **SPAM** in the header. That being said, I have 3 other email inboxes that I need to check spam with. SpamSieve is working great handling all three and is Indie Software. :) Joe: I haven't tried reporting to Akismet. I just mark it as spam locally. It'd be nice if the Akismet plug-in would catch that and report it automatically. Tom: I haven’t taken much advantage of Pair’s spam blocking, but I do get emails marked as **SPAM** in the header. That being said, I have 3 other email inboxes that I need to check spam with. SpamSieve is working great handling all three and is Indie Software. :)

Joe: I haven’t tried reporting to Akismet. I just mark it as spam locally. It’d be nice if the Akismet plug-in would catch that and report it automatically.

]]> By: Joe Maller http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-3559 Joe Maller Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:47:36 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-3559 SpamSieve is wonderful. I've been pretty careful about munging my public email addresses, but SpamSieve is still catching nearly 1000 spams a month. I'm it in addition to my ISP's SpamAssassin installation, which I've never been able to tweak effectively. Akismet is pretty good, but WordPress needs to make it faster to mark spam as such. I still have quite a few slip through every week and reporting them to Akismet requires a lot of clicks. Were messages as easy to report as they are to delete, the whole system would work better. SpamSieve is wonderful. I’ve been pretty careful about munging my public email addresses, but SpamSieve is still catching nearly 1000 spams a month. I’m it in addition to my ISP’s SpamAssassin installation, which I’ve never been able to tweak effectively.

Akismet is pretty good, but WordPress needs to make it faster to mark spam as such. I still have quite a few slip through every week and reporting them to Akismet requires a lot of clicks. Were messages as easy to report as they are to delete, the whole system would work better.

]]> By: Tom Harrington http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-3556 Tom Harrington Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:09:13 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/09/my-fight-against-spam/#comment-3556 With regard to #2-- I know you host at pair.com, so I'm wondering if you had tried any of their spam-blocking measures? I've recently had to take a hard line on spam in order to keep email useful to me. Pair's "greylisting" and shutting down my catch-all email address have cut down hugely on my incoming spam. And Pair's use of SpamAssassin to add spam-related headers to suspect emails means that Mail is doing a much better job at recognizing the spam that does get through. Right now it's looking like a huge success and I haven't installed anything new on my Mac. With regard to #2– I know you host at pair.com, so I’m wondering if you had tried any of their spam-blocking measures? I’ve recently had to take a hard line on spam in order to keep email useful to me. Pair’s “greylisting” and shutting down my catch-all email address have cut down hugely on my incoming spam. And Pair’s use of SpamAssassin to add spam-related headers to suspect emails means that Mail is doing a much better job at recognizing the spam that does get through. Right now it’s looking like a huge success and I haven’t installed anything new on my Mac.

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