Here’s what I love about spammers, they do the most obvious thing to target the largest audience, so most of the times, I’m excluded!
Here’s the story: Before I redesigned my site, I had a daily meal of 10-15 comment spams. Yes, I did feel recognized, but I didn’t like the “Enlarge Your Penis” kind of crap, I’m in pretty good terms with my penis and the rest of my body.
But after my recent (dare I call it a) redesign, I didn’t get a single comment spam. Not a single one, can you imagine? I didn’t install any of that bayesian spam filters, they’re just too heavy for my site, I didn’t have any extra plugins or tweaks for MoveableType, so how come?
Deeper log reviewing uncovered the mystery. /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi
had the largest 404 hits among all others. That’s exactly what I’m trying to say,
spammers look for obvious things, so they take down the 95% percent of the
sites who install MT in such obvious locations. I don’t even have MT in CGI-bin,
my installation resides in /mt, a location most spammers don’t think of
for some wierd reason.
So here’s a piece of advice for anyone who has MT installed. Move your mt from cgi-bin, or at least rename mt to something else, maybe your pet’s name, or your favorite color, or x78H, your StarWars nickname. Yes, that reduces comment spam if it doesn’t eliminate it.
As for you, spammers, please don’t insult my intelligence. I don’t even care
where MT resides as long as it works, so if you start looking for
mt-comment.cgi in my new installation location, I’ll move it (or sue
somebody), I don’t care where it’s placed, even if it’s deep down somebody’s
throat, capiche?!
Comments (23)
I like these spams specially about enlarging some parts of your body
There is also the option of requiring registration, which you can do with MT3. I know you were somewhat conflicted about MT3, but hopefully with the new licenses you might want to give it a try. The free version’s exactly the same code as the paid versions, so you can try out TypeKey or your own login system if you want.
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