{"id":310,"date":"2006-08-20T20:46:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T10:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2006-08-22T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T12:22:49","slug":"slamming-the-door-on-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Slamming the door on spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If a businessman came by my house and reckoned he could spray paint his logo on my garage doors- for free- he’d likely not get away without picking rock salt out of his bum. Same goes for hairballs who comment and trackback spam mgk.<\/p>\n

If garage door advertisers had free rein, I probably couldn’t afford to build a fence high enough to keep them out. mgk is quite another story.<\/p>\n

Shields up, Mr Sulu!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

You’ll never<\/strong> see a single word of spam on mgk<\/a> or Suki Has An Opinion<\/a>, thanks to a combination of Akismet<\/a>, Bad Behavior<\/a> and a very<\/strong><\/em> aggressive and painstakingly assembled IP banlist, built over the last 10 days. Want a copy to plug into your own .htaccess<\/a> file? Just ask.<\/p>\n

Many spammers deliberately misconfigure their spamservers, leaving out the PTR record<\/a>. Without a PTR, you can’t ban a machine by its domain name i.e. ‘spammer.co.kr’ because the box doesn’t know ‘who’ it is- it only knows its ‘street address.’ My banlist does include some domain names, which do keep out the less determined sods, but if the spammer has misconfigured their servers, these won’t work. There’s several IP ranges included which shut off a number of ISPs who run misconfigured servers.<\/p>\n

\"BAM!<\/div>\n

I started getting serious about blocking spammers by IP address around the 9th of August, 2006. You can see on the graph that spammers were eating up about 60-70% of the traffic to machinegunkeyboard.com. In July 2006, spammers very nearly pushed the data traffic to the point where I would have had to pay for a higher throughput hosting account. Umm, no fucking<\/strong><\/em> thank you.<\/p>\n

What I don’t get is why anyone would pay a spammer to advertise their product. I’d sooner chew a wad of aluminium foil than buy a product sold by spamvertising. The spammers are ripping off the people paying to advertise and they’re ripping off website admins like me.<\/p>\n

If you’re running a business and want to advertise, make sure you aren’t paying a spammer- it’s a sure way to business failure.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/font><\/strong> See Spamhuntress<\/a><\/em> for great tips & tricks on how to stonewall the huns at the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If a businessman came by my house and reckoned he could spray paint his logo on my garage doors- for free- he’d likely not get away without picking rock salt out of his bum. Same goes for hairballs who comment and trackback spam mgk. If garage door advertisers had free rein, I probably couldn’t afford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}