Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

Sun Jan 14 18:31:27 UTC 2007

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
> For the benefit of those of us who have been lucky to Recover from ISP work
> and now herd blogs, would you be so kind as to share which blacklists are
> worthwhile and worth consulting on this front?

I would expect the lists of compromised hosts to be fairly effective -
open proxies of various kinds and perhaps botnet hosts. As for SMTP the
blacklists would only be a starting point that either provide a cheap
preliminary check or feed a more sophisticated filtering system.

Tony.
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