Tom Raftery no longer uses any anti-spam plugins and has been spam free for a week now.
In short, he is using WordPress 1.5, he populated his blackilist with common words spammers use, he has written a custom .htaccess file, and he’s using Dr. Dave’s plugin Referrer Karma.
Get the details here.
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2 Responses
Tom Raftery
March 20th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
1Quick couple of updates on my posting about not using any anti comment spam plugins:
1. It is now almost three weeks and still no spam has made it through my defences and
2. I have changed my domain in the meantime from tomandpilar.net/tom to tomrafteryit.net/views, so now my post is available to view at http://www.tomrafteryit.net/comment-spam-plugins-no-longer-required/
Thanks,
Tom
Blogging Pro » Blog Archive » SpamKarma and WP Performance
March 27th, 2005 at 9:54 am
2[...] am Karma since it first came out and was really pleased with the results but after reading Tom Raftery’s article on preventing comment spam us [...]