I've been running with Jay Allen's solution to comment-spam for a while not and it works like a charm. There were a few minor downsides to his solution, one of which was that it was somewhat involved to setup, forcing you to manually edit a number of Movable Type templates for it to work.. This manual effort was more than worth it though, especially with comment-spam going from bad to worse lately.
Well Jay fixed this minor problem and added a sleuth of other enhancements with the release of MT-Blacklist earlier tonight. All it takes is 3 files to copy to your server and you're protected against hundreds of known comment spammers and can easily add more when necessary.
Some of the enhancements are that it now comes with it's own interface to maintain the url blacklist, it actually blocks blacklisted comments instead of merely hiding them, and it can automatically publish your blacklist to ease sharing blacklists between weblogs.
If you're running a MT based weblog and have experienced comment-spam, this is the must-have plugin you need to install. Get it now!
Some Of You Aren’t Welcome Here
From emails, other postings and (the right kind of) comments I see that Jay Allen's Movable Type plugin for dealing...
MT-Blacklist Version 1.5 released
Today I am pleased (proud, relieved, thankful, etc) to announce the release of MT-Blacklist v1.5. There are some major changes...
To Spam or Anti-Spam, that is the question...
If there's one type of spam that gets on my nerves more than any other, it is spam that promotes anti-spam tools. Sure, anyone that reads this spam is clearly in need of some protection, but by doing this, the anti-spammer becomes a spammer. And if som...
