Banning spamming bastards

I suppose it’s a sign that someone, somewhere thinks that your blog is worth something when the comment spam starts rolling in, but to be honest it’s attention I could do without. The frustrating part is that because I’m running Wordpress and I’ve set the comment moderation to ‘all’, the spam doesn’t actually get as far as the blog pages themselves. As soon as I get the email, I’m deleting the comments, so they never actually appear at all.

Not that it’s stopping someone spamming for various highly dodgy pharmaceuticals. This afternoon I got pissed off with it, so a quick trawl through the server logs led to one particular IP address - 220.93.120.39. So it’s now gone into a ‘deny all’ line in the .htaccess file, and one comment spammer is now battering their XMLRPC interface against an electronic brick wall.

So if you’ve got the option of banning specific IP addresses, can I suggest you try 220.93.120.93…

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