Comments on: WP-Ban and AKismet

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:36:22 +0000

I decided to use an IP blocker like WP Ban with Akismet and it has been far more successful is stopping spam at the source.

Before the IP numbers of certain spammers may have been logged by Akismet so they can be easily tagged as spam but that didn’t really help me.

Now volumes of spam are manageable and any IP numbers that show up univited are toast.

By: ihad

ihad — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:16:49 +0000

Of course you do! 298 : 2 for WP-Ban!

From those 298 attempts to spam my site and cause traffic/db queries etc (which is all prevented now) there were a few extra busy IPs so far which you can safely add to your blacklist:

216.195.36.150 – 69 attempts
216.246.79.5 – 64 attempts
216.246.79.4 – 53 attempts (I banned 216.246.79.*)
64.202.123.194 – 33 attempts

since 28.1.2007 and counting. I would love to have WP-BAN expanded and take IPs/Host Names from AKismet or integrate a ban option in AKismet. My weekly AKismet spam queue has now only 2 entries instead of 300… and those two IPs are now banned also.

By: trench

trench — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:40:19 +0000

I want to try this!