Our Spam Blocking

Annals of the Homestarmy

Wednesday, March 11. 2009

Posted by Ancient of Days in Oddities

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Our Spam Blocking

Talking to Johnny today, I realized we don't talk much around here about traffic numbers or spam. Here's just a quick tidbit on the spam we get, and our anti-spam measures.

Since our last database crash, which was in early 2007, we have blocked 437,023 comments as "spam". Many of those blocks are due to the excellent Akismet comment-spam blocking service. Here are some monthly break-downs of our spam since Feb. 2007. We also do keyword based filtering, and I regularly update a "blacklist" of known-bad hosts from sources I collect around the internet.



 count | Year-Month

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   114 | 2007-02

    71 | 2007-03

    42 | 2007-04

   913 | 2007-05

  1766 | 2007-06

 10323 | 2007-07

 20793 | 2007-08

 29306 | 2007-09

 22621 | 2007-10

 19681 | 2007-11

  1491 | 2007-12

 17414 | 2008-01

 18504 | 2008-02

 24639 | 2008-03

 39935 | 2008-04

 32254 | 2008-05

 28420 | 2008-06

 33056 | 2008-07

 46829 | 2008-08

 23461 | 2008-09

 13136 | 2008-10

 16934 | 2008-11

 15591 | 2008-12

  9546 | 2009-01

  7864 | 2009-02

  2319 | 2009-03

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2007-04 was a special month. Thanks for the numbers AoD. I am glad to see that you have been able to block most of the spam I have been trying to bombard the blog with. Makes me think we did a good job in hiring you as our sysadmin. :P

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