Well, I was going to make this a comment to Hugh’s rant about comment Spam, but his comments are… clo-… oh, right.
JamesOff.net has a WordPress Anti-Spam RBL checker that he’s working on:
I have written a WordPress plugin which checks the IP of the poster and deletes their comment immediately when it is added if it is listed in an RBL (like spamcop or spamhaus).
Unfortunately WP still generates the email saying the comment was added, I’m not sure if I can stop that. An alternative might be to prevent users with RBLed IPs from being able to access the comments form, but if they still try to hit the wp-comments.php file directly I’m not sure if I can hook it that early
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Actually, our friend JamesOff has finished the first working version of this plugin for WordPress. Looks like it can be capped and added here
November 13th, 2004 at 9:43 am
Cool — I’ll have to check out that link. Inna meantime, here’s another one for you to check: WPBlacklist. It checks RBLs for IP addresses of posters, too. However, I’m not convinced that’s going to be all that helpful — there’s simply far too many compromised machines out there acting as proxies or zombies. Gotta figure out how SURBL works — since it checks the URL/I against a list of spammer sites, I suspec that’s a lot more likely to be effective.
November 13th, 2004 at 9:44 am
Oh, and I’ve turned comments back on now. At least, I think I have…