Harvesting Spammy IPs

July 3, 2006

In our ongoing quest to reduce loads on the server, we’ve initiated a program to periodically scan WordPress and MovableType databases for 10 or more comment attempts that are flagged as spam. These IPs are immediately added to the firewall to keep the spammer from exacting any more toll on the server. So far the program seems to be fairly effective. If you run a site that gets a lot of comment spam, please let us know - we should be able to adapt our system to scan your database for similar offenders.