It has been almost 5 months (shame on me!) since I last did any blogging or paid any serious attention to keeping the site tidy of comment spam. So, not surprisingly, I ended up with a mountain of comment spam - a little over 8,000 spam comments.
So ... back to MT-blacklist. The only problem was that it had been so long since I last used it that I had forgotten how to use it.
Not only that, actually deleting 8,000+ items of comment spam took quite a while. Around 2 or 3 hours, I guess, on a day when I have more important things to do.
I am now down to about 400 pieces of comment spam and counting. It shouldn't take too much longer.
Then I need to look at the newer versions of Movable Type to see whether I should upgrade. I hope that Movable Type 3 is significantly more secure and configurable than the current version.
Posted by Andrew Watt at November 1, 2004 02:38 PM | TrackBack