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Wed, 2005-03-02 07:21 — Aldon Hynes

I have just added a quick and dirty despammer.

It wipes out messages that it thinks are spam. I think it may have had a few false positives, but it wiped out a LOT of spam.

Also, I know that a lot of people don't like the wysiwig editor for blog entries. Personally, I don't like wysiwig, so I have turned it off for me account. Any of you can do this by clicking on 'My account', then the 'Edit' tab, and the uncheck

'Enable rich text editor while authoring'

I hope this helps.

Aldon

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Thu, 2005-03-03 07:28 — Arancaytar

And now what about the trackbacks?

Now that the comments are taken care of, we could perhaps use something to get rid of the trackback spam such as here...

http://pbahq.smartcampaigns.com/node/330

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Thu, 2005-03-03 14:53 — tas

Stupid trackback polka

I haven't found a way to get rid of trackback spam automatically yet. Hoping somebody comes out with that module soon...
Thu, 2005-03-03 15:44 — Arancaytar

Well, for starters..

Well, for starters it'd be good if I knew how to delete it manually at least... so far I don't. Am I even able to with my current authorization?

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Thu, 2005-03-03 23:22 — Nick Lewis

The only way to delete trac

The only way to delete trackback spam is to do it through MySQL tables in the linix command prompt. Needless to say, I am too lazy to do it. I would give you access, if it were not for the fact that about 14 civicspace sites run off of our drupal MySQL database.
Wed, 2005-03-02 14:08 — tas

Despamming

I'm not sure what spamming protection module you're using, but if it's eating normal comments, then I'll just throw my suggestion out here... I'm using this module on my site, and I haven't experienced a comment eating problem. Any mod can define can click "this is spam" when a spam comment comes up, and after that it does a superb job of blocking just those comments. Unfortunately, it doesn't filter trackbacks.
Wed, 2005-03-02 14:22 — Arancaytar

Sounds like an immensely good idea...

Right now, I can keep up with the crap, but as soon as I sign off and go to sleep, we're swamped. I've sent a complaint to the registrar contact address by the way, which is really the most one can do. The domain is named "genaholincorporated (dot) com", and their registrar service is named "namecheap (dot) com". The email addresses, respectively, are support@NameCheap.com and kirkdonald2003@yahoo.com . Not that I'm actually *calling* for vigilante action, but...

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Wed, 2005-03-02 07:48 — Arancaytar

You should really turn this off for now...

So far it ate 5 of my comments, and this is the second time I'm reposting this one. I'm thinking that it could use some adjustments before you unleash it on the unsuspecting site. ;)

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Edit: Ack. Deleted the next one, about 25 posts. In hopes of impeding this flood, I've briefly set Previewing to be required; perhaps that can block some of the automatic scripts (this is being done by scripts, not humans, I'm sure).

There go the next 20. One hour to make, 5 minutes to obliterate. This equation is in my favour, Mr. Spamboy, so you might as well give up.

Wed, 2005-03-02 15:21 — Nick Lewis

I'm afraid that can't happe

I'm afraid that can't happen... at the moment, we're getting two spams every minutue. (the spam bot appears to be fighting, or unaware that it is getting deleted, and has gotten over excited.) If we left the spam thing off for even a day, we'd have 2880 spams at this point.
Wed, 2005-03-02 13:10 — Arancaytar

We really need an IP Blocker.

That, or refuse to publish a comment where the author's name contains the string "p*ker" (just in case that spamchomper gets to my post).

Spam filters work because spam is all the same. The bane of spam-filters is spam of too great a variety to be recognized. This is not that kind of spam; it is so uniform in nature that a simple filter would work.

Edit: This does it. The next site that is advertised with a spam message is going down, and if it's the last thing I do.

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Wed, 2005-03-02 15:23 — Nick Lewis

Oh wait, you've been deleting

Oh wait, you've been deleting the spam, thank you so much! However, this script is supposed to do that for you. Let me work on some crap real quick.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:10 — tas

Spam Wars: Return of the Polka

I should mention, though you probably already know now, that I'd been battling spam as well earlier today. I'll also mention again that the spam module on drupal.org does a good job of automatically removing spam without having to wait for a cron job. However, it doesn't filter trackbacks and I'm still manually deleting those.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:26 — Nick Lewis

Tas, how did you configure

Tas, how did you configure the spam module? If you woudn't mind, could you check this site's configuration, and make the necessary changes?
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:32 — tas

Looking on the admin menu, I

Looking on the admin menu, I don't have enough privileges to access the controls for the actual spam module itself. (If I did, the option "spam" would show up directly under "settings". It probably does for you or Aldon, but not for me.) But that shouldn't matter... Ana., next p0ker comment that comes in, don't delete it. I want to take a look at it. Thanks.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:33 — Nick Lewis

crap, hold on, let me open

crap, hold on, let me open things up
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:36 — Nick Lewis

how bout now? its under &qu

how bout now? its under "settings"
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:42 — Nick Lewis

Tas, don't say "p-o-k-

Tas, don't say "p-o-k-e-r", or else the manual spam nuke will kill your comment. Hey, Arancaytar, you can stop nuking the spam for now; we need to train the filter how to spot spam.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:45 — Arancaytar

I stopped some time ago already.

I'm not reloading that page anymore. Either someone else is doing it, or the spammer gave up. Or perhaps it worked the first time I hit "mark as spam", and he's blocked now? o_O

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Wed, 2005-03-02 18:49 — tas

It looks the spammer has give

It looks the spammer has given up for now. The last time their bot hit this site was 7:31.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:56 — Arancaytar

Why do I feel disappointed?

I should be glad he's gone, shouldn't I? Still, I feel disappointed we never got to use that tool... :P

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Wed, 2005-03-02 19:09 — Nick Lewis

Arancaytar, has the sweet s

Arancaytar, has the sweet smell of victory come as a dissapointment? You have fought valiently, and deserve a medal! I'm guessing you have deleted no less than 200 spam entries during this massive spam attack.

Tas, are you sure that the spam filter hasn't started working?

Wed, 2005-03-02 19:24 — tas

OK, I think I got it

It doesn't look like the filter is working yet, but I think I know why.  I can't access this, but you should be able to go here and create a custom filter for the word now know as polka. I remember that I had to setup such a filter before the spam module really started working on my blog.

Wed, 2005-03-02 19:27 — Nick Lewis

Tas, this filter obviously

Tas, this filter obviously isn't working properly, where did you find the filter that you use?
Wed, 2005-03-02 19:43 — tas

I believe...

I'm using this one: spam-4.5.0.tar.gz
Wed, 2005-03-02 19:01 — tas

Don't feel bad

I run my blog on Drupal, so I'm familiar with the software.  The logs it keeps are a stalker's wet dream.

Wed, 2005-03-02 18:45 — tas

Oops, I should have guessed t

Oops, I should have guessed that... I'll just refer to is as polka for now.  (Though the prospect of "online polka", and the geriatric mosh pit that comes with it, is mighty scary.)
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:27 — tas

Lemmie give it a look.

Lemmie give it a look.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:12 — tas

Hmmm..

Now when I look at comments, I see "mark as spam" for an option.  I guess Drupal's spam module has been installed.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:17 — Arancaytar

It doesn't work...

Shows up as "page not found".

~~~ "While you live make as much noise as you can. Live your life with music and disonance, because after us comes the silence."

Wed, 2005-03-02 18:32 — Nick Lewis

The module is still in deve

The module is still in development. Though it gives you a 404, it still writes the necessary info into the MySQL database. Oh, let some spam build up so that we can train the filter.
Wed, 2005-03-02 18:30 — Nick Lewis

Testing "this is not s

Testing "this is not spam"

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