Comments on: Anti-spam, hopefully not anti-user

By: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard

Ben 'Cerbera' Millard — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:33:28 +0000

That does sound rather effective, indeed.

Thanks for writing the supported codes. I think those are the only key ones, although bulletpoints via

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:17:53 +0000

Well, so far Bad behaviour is blocking hundreds of ‘bad’ bots a day, and Akismet caught spam is down under 100 per day.

It has also been noticable in the general access logs, reducing the visits by about 90 per day (1/5), and reducing bandwidth by slightly more than that.

Unless I hear from a person that hasn’t been able to access the site soon, I think I’ll be contributing to BB.

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:09:29 +0000

Yes, just digging around in the includes you can use:

a (href), abbr (title), acronym (title), strong, code, em, del (datetime).

Do you think anything else is needed? I’ll add it to the comment form.

Oh, and Bad behaviour is recording 220 prevented connections in 20 hours, Akismet has caught 30 comments (down from ~700).

Hopefully that just means there are many prevented spam attempts…

By: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard

Ben 'Cerbera' Millard — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:03:10 +0000

I just arrived here from your RSS feed, and it worked fine for me.

Since this is a site-admin note, have you found out what codes are allowed in messages?