This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from June 2004 and lives here forevermore.

Comment Spammers

Over the course of the last 5 days my blog was hit by a sustained comment spam attack for the first time. I’ve got the occasional one before, but this one involved over 400 comments for 4 different sites.

All of the comments have been removed now, fairly painlessly thanks to MT-Blacklist. I’ve never paid it much attention before, as I’ve never had the need, but it proved it’s worth admirably. We’re now running the latest version (1.64) as opposed to the 1.0-beta which was never upgraded :(

Now it’s just a matter of keeping it updated and adding new patterns to it once in a while.