Comments on: Birdhouse forces comment registration on MT blogs http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/21/birdhouse-forces-comment-registration-on-mt-blogs/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:01:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Odell http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/21/birdhouse-forces-comment-registration-on-mt-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-20330 Mark Odell Fri, 01 Apr 2005 01:16:34 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/21/birdhouse-forces-comment-registration-on-mt-blogs/#comment-20330 And if he tried MT-DSBL modified for BOPM (and then SBL-XBL if need be), he hasn't said. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000502.html And if he tried MT-DSBL modified for BOPM (and then SBL-XBL if need be), he hasn’t said.
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000502.html

]]> By: Spamhuntress http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/21/birdhouse-forces-comment-registration-on-mt-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-17725 Spamhuntress Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:21:06 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/21/birdhouse-forces-comment-registration-on-mt-blogs/#comment-17725 Right now, you can for the most part avoid server stress on that level by implementing an .htaccess ban on pinappleproxy, like this: RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA} ^.+pinappleproxy The occasional trackback attack will still get through, and smaller spamming outfits. But nowhere near the strain that particular spammer causes. So no, Birdhouse didn't exhaust every possible solution. Right now, you can for the most part avoid server stress on that level by implementing an .htaccess ban on pinappleproxy, like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA} ^.+pinappleproxy

The occasional trackback attack will still get through, and smaller spamming outfits. But nowhere near the strain that particular spammer causes.

So no, Birdhouse didn’t exhaust every possible solution.

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