Preventing spammers from getting to page

  • I was wondering if it’s pretty much a pointless effort to try and prevent spammers from even getting to your page. I’m currently blocking access with .htaccess, by denying all the ip’s that the spam is coming from. None of the spam actually gets through so that’s a good thing. Is it really pointless for me to be blocking these IP addresses?

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  • I was blocking 160,000+ at one time.
    Now I block by referer, some IP’s (about a dozen I think) and I use drdave’s indispensible referer-karma.
    https://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/

    (And spam-karma continues to perform fantastically too)

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    How do you block by Referer? Is it with using referer-karma or with .htacess?

    Also, is it best for me to delete or move to spam my moderated comments.

    referer-karma takes care of a lot of the spammers.

    Refer (another prog) shows me where people are coming from and what they are seeing (I just looked and found a hotlinker using this)

    And I use .htaccess to ban by User-Agent / referer


    SetEnvIf User-Agent "Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)" spammer
    SetEnvIfNoCase Via pinappleproxy spammer=yes
    SetEnvIfNoCase Referer yelucie.com spammer=yes
    SetEnvIfNoCase Referer crescentarian.net spammer=yes

    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    Deny from env=spammer

    That sort of thing.

    https://www.spamhuntress.com/

    Lots of very useful reading.

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    thanks podz! ??

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