Blog comment spam

    I occasionally comment on the amount of comment spam I get here. But I felt further analysis might be a good idea, so I am not logging as much information as possible about the commenter when they submit a comment. This dump below I find fairly interesting (it's for approximately the last 24 hours). 

      mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$ find . -type f -name *.info -exec cat {} \; | \
grep REMOTE_ADDR | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      2 REMOTE_ADDR = 85.255.117.250
      3 REMOTE_ADDR = 203.142.1.182
      5 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.71.106.121
      8 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.75.62.79
      9 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.75.49.130
     11 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.76.235.6
     12 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.75.49.131
     13 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.75.49.134
     16 REMOTE_ADDR = 202.75.49.133
mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$


    I wonder if blocking specific IPs would help the spam level, or if stopping comments on some posts would help? There certainly seem to be some "hot spot" posts: 

      264: /home/mikal/blog-comments/travel/usa/california/santaclara/000003
179: /home/mikal/blog-comments/diary/lca2005/000029
170: /home/mikal/blog-comments/linux/000038
158: /home/mikal/blog-comments/diary/000796
134: /home/mikal/blog-comments/diary/000795
92: /home/mikal/blog-comments/pdfdb/000001
87: /home/mikal/blog-comments/link/000065
81: /home/mikal/blog-comments/diary/toys/000001
79: /home/mikal/blog-comments/travel/usa/000006
70: /home/mikal/blog-comments/diary/toys/mp101/pymediaserver/000001


    I think I will ponder more.

    Tags for this post: blog(S) spam(S)

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