Good work! Give 'em hell. No, that's to good. Give 'em something worse.
Chuck Norcutt
Olaf Greve wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> As a follow up to last week's posts, I can report that I have
> investigated matters further, and the TOPE commenting script is still
> being hammered by spam bots from all over the world.
> My Apache error log is chockful of traces to that particular script,
> and as mentioned, I want to report the used IP addresses to anti-spam
> authorities. Now... I don't feel much like manually filtering out all
> those traces from the Apache logfiles, and instead I just created a
> small logging script that simply logs each IP address (and the date
> and time) of each call to the comments script. This way I'm
> harvesting a nice DB of "spambot IP addresses", and this way I can
> lateron easier send the IP addresses in an automated way to the anti-
> spam authorities; or at least, so I hope.
>
> For this reason I kindly request you all to not use the comments
> scripts for now, as doing so will result in your IP address being
> logged.
>
> In case your IP address does get logged, the script will let you know
> (and it will show your IP address), and you can then send me your IP
> address in an e-mail with the subject "TOPE IP ADDRESS REMOVAL", such
> that I can delete the address from the DB.
>
> I know this is somewhat of a pain, but until I get around to adding
> additional security to the actual comments script, I want to harvest
> as many of the critters as possible, such that they can hopefully be
> stopped... :P
>
> Finally: please note that this does NOT mean that you cannot use the
> TOPE site. Everything works, but for the comments script, and as soon
> as it is fixed, I will let you guys know...
>
> Cheers!
> Olafo
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