BTW, I don't know if this helps, but the IP of my latest mega-spammer is:
69.50.175.146
If we can ban that, it would help enormously. (He/she uses lots of different actual addresses and names.)
I'm also more than willing to upgrade to the new MT to slow these sons of bitches down, for what that's worth.
Posted by Attila at January 1, 2005 01:21 AMI'll give that a third. I've had to disable all comments. It sucks, but so does removing hundreds of comments.
Posted by Nick Queen at January 1, 2005 06:43 AMThe crap should have stopped now, but I will certainly be setting up MT3 blogs for anyone who wants one.
Posted by Pixy Misa at January 1, 2005 07:30 AMWeird. Yesterday I was botted with 6 spams. They were from different IPs yet they had the same username.
What was that "nuclear option" again...?
Posted by Tuning Spork at January 2, 2005 03:02 AMIn the past two days, we've blocked over 35,000 spam and crap comments.
Oy.
Line starts over there ---->
(Ducks behind potted plant.)
Posted by Pixy Misa at January 2, 2005 03:05 AMThank you, Dear! You're wonderful. Let's see how our current systems work and then perhaps we can see about this MT upgrade. Would that have to be all of us at once, or what? Is it something you think you'll be recommending, long-term?
Posted by Attila Girl at January 2, 2005 11:26 AMThe past few days have been great; I think you might really have got them this time.
Also, it's lovely to go into ancient posts for "spam checks" and see that their comment threads are now closed and all is well. Thanks for that.
Posted by Attila Girl at January 5, 2005 04:45 PM