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Where does the spam come from?

My Blacklist is doing fine since about quite some time and I was expiring ancient spam adresses. So after having a clean list again, it’s time to have a look at the stats – in other words, where does the spam come from. The Top 10 comment spam countries: Country Adresses listed United States 12717 […]

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WP-BlackCheck 2.7.0 is ready for you

The new WP-BlackCheck Version is ready. That’s the changes so far: Implement redirection of spammers (i.e. send them to the fbi website) Implement comment hash checking for repeated spam Increase HTTP Timeout for Web-Requests to avoid some server problems Comment hashes might take a while to start living as the database needs to be populated.

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What language?

I read this blog in… / Ich lese diesen Blog auf … In case the poll above doesn’t work, here’s a direct link

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Thinking about comment spam again

It’s a fact that I don’t have much spam here since WP-BlackCheck pretty much kills it all, but as I am just one user among many out there, I’d like to know if I miss some kind of spam on your end or which bugs you found to be able to fix them. Any wishes […]

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WP-BlackCheck 2.6.2

This version fixes a bug with known comment authors which I overlooked last release.

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WP-BlackCheck 2.6.1

A new version of WP-BlackCheck is out – once again. The changes are more or less just a few cosmetic fixes: Add counter for reported IPs Fix bar graph text issue New Webservice URL

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