locking the door

This last week I seem to have been a special target of comment spam. You would think that a blog devoted to gardening would be immune from this. Now that I have the "Recent Comments" list on the sidebar they get prominent exposure on the main index so it is important to get them deleted as fast as possible. I have relatives and even a friend or two who reads this and I want to look a little bit respectible.

After deleting about six this afternoon I finally decided to install the MT-Blacklist. I had avoided it because I thought it would be difficult and up until recently I only had one now and then. Turns out to have been extremely easy to install. I should have done it a long time ago.

I sure hope it works. If it doesn't I will have to go back and close the comments on the old entries. I don't really want to do that. It is a real delight to get a comment on some forgotten article from way back.

Posted by Bill Hopkins on March 15, 2004 08:48 PM
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MT-Blacklist is a godsend. It cut down my comment spam by about 95% in the first week. When a new viper appears, I just add him to the list.

Posted by: Joel at March 15, 2004 11:05 PM

Bill, I wonder if you'd mind popping over to Michelle's blog (Windspirit). She was just asking yesterday how it works and is really getting frustrated by all the spammers.
(She's linked in my blogroll).

I hope that isn't too presumptuous of me.

Posted by: Leslie at March 16, 2004 07:23 AM

can you use it even if you don't have MT?

Posted by: Mary Lou at March 16, 2004 12:58 PM

Happy to oblige, Leslie.

But I doubt that it will work with Blogger, Mary Lou.

Posted by: Bill at March 16, 2004 08:50 PM

I am sorry to hear you have been troubled by this. So far (knock on computer) I have only had two so far, since last September, but with 99% really nice folks in our blog-world, it sure is a shame to have this spreading problem.

Posted by: Beth W. at March 16, 2004 11:41 PM