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Re: Blog spam and message length

  • Subject: Re: Blog spam and message length
  • From: John Bokma <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 17 Sep 2005 16:10:26 GMT
  • Newsgroups: alt.www.webmaster
  • Organization: Castle Amber - software development
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> __/ [John Bokma] on Saturday 17 September 2005 03:42 \__
> 
>> "KarlCore" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> John Bokma wrote:
>>>> Your message 'Very interesting blog!' is too short, please try
>>>> again Your message 'Realy good site!' is too short, please try
>>>> again Your message 'Your site is realy very interesting!' is too
>>>> short, please try again
>>>> Your message 'Very nice site!' is too short, please try again
>>>>
>>>> So, yeah, for now my little trick does seem to reduce blog spam.
>>>> The next step will probably be comments of a "normal" length.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> You may want to instead work on a blacklist of banned phrases
>> 
>> I think that everything less then 40 characters in length can be
>> counted as banned :-D
>> 
>>> and
>>> banned urls like the one at http://blacklist.chongqed.org/
>> 
>> Those change a lot, moreover, I have the idea that now and then
>> "innocent URLs" are posted, just for testing. With my message length
>> check off I got 10 messages in 3 hrs... (So I turned it back on).
>  
> That discussion about comment spam returns to life then.
> 
> You can never filter comment spam perfectly, but a good test will
> involve frequency of hits, IP address(es),

They use blog spam zombies

> word occurrence,

would work right now, but I still have the impression that this are test 
runs, ie. how many blogs can they actually reach? They use domain names 
that are not up (AFAIK).

> number of URL's, etc.

one, in the URL field.


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