I recently got a load of comment spam today. There is no way to deal with this right now by default in the Movable Type system. You have to go through and manually delete them all, as well as do something to make sure it doesn't happen again. IP banning is pretty useless. So there really is no clear way to solve the problem. But I read up on Movable Type's API, and wrote a script to solve the problem.
If anyone want to use it, be sure and change the directories around. This script can be easily modified to erase all comments with a particular word in it. However, I think deleting by IP is good enough for now.
As far as ways to ensure they are not posted, it's something I'm thinking about. However, it's hard enough for email, in a similar way there's no way to stop everything except to have a whitelist, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a blog.
Posted by ahyatt at October 14, 2003 09:41 PM