Help!

The blogspammers seem to have found a new and even more cunning way to post unsolicited advertising. They’ve found a way to post “comments” that aren’t displayed in the Moveable Type editing screen, so that you can’t easily delete them. See the “comment” by “Hospital” to Geoff Honnor’s post “Democracy Makes You Healthier – And Lovelier“. Any techie gurus have any clues?

Update – Now the spam comment seems to have disappeared. Weird!! Test

About Ken Parish

Ken Parish is a legal academic, with research areas in public law (constitutional and administrative law), civil procedure and teaching & learning theory and practice. He has been a legal academic for almost 20 years. Before that he ran a legal practice in Darwin for 15 years and was a Member of the NT Legislative Assembly for almost 4 years in the early 1990s.
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Geoff Honnor
Geoff Honnor
2024 years ago

I deleted it Ken.

John Quiggin
John Quiggin
2024 years ago

I set MT to email all comments to me, then use MT-Blacklist to delete the spam and bar subsequent postings from the same IP address or linking to the same URLs. I think this would fix your problem.

Scott Wickstein
2024 years ago

MT Blacklist is installed on the entire domain so just do what John suggests and it should be alright.

The problem is, though, that in multi-user blogs, different spam comments get emailed to the different contributors.