Not even two months ago I was writing about increasing spam on this blog. Back then I installed Hashcash which indeed solved the problem.
Hashcash sends me an email whenever ~20 spam attempts are blocked (whenever it’s spam log gets to 8kb actually). I am now at the point where I receive about 10 such emails per day! That’s more than 200 spam attempts per day, more spam than I receive on my 5 or so email addresses. Fortunately Hashcash can be configured to either not send emails or keep a bigger log before sending.
Hi Dimitris,
You should do what I do. Once a blog entry has fallen off of my home page I disable the comments. That way I only have to worry about the last 7-10 posts instead of my entire archive.
Comment by Michael Sica — October 16, 2005 @ 17:55
I don’t have a real problem (as in spam getting posted), it’s just that I was surprised by the numbers. I can’t even imagine what kind of spam, high volume blogs get.
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — October 17, 2005 @ 00:55
Dimitri, try Secureimage. I got rid of 99.99% of spam posts!
P.
Comment by Panayotis Vryonis — October 17, 2005 @ 02:03