MT-Blacklist

   A quick review of Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist from a novice user's point of view. Thank goodness for MT-Blacklist! If you have a Movable Type blog, you may well know the horrors of comment spam. If you don't know about it, comment spam is when someone leaves unrelated comments on your blog advertising their own website or services. Sometimes people (or computers) will leave multiple comment spams resulting in a lot of wasted time removing and rebuilding entries. IP banning does very little as people switch IP addresses like The Fab Five changes outfits.
    I've had MT-Blacklist installed for a few months now, and rarely do I get spam comments coming through. When I do Blacklist makes it very easy to add the spammer's info and "de-spam" my blog. In just the past 12 days, Blacklist has kept over 30 spam comments from reaching your eyes. Every few weeks it's a good idea to get a copy of the master blacklist and import new entries, but it's very simple and takes little time especially when compared to the time it would take to manually despam a blog. There is a newer version due out soon which will be compatible with the new Movable Type 3.1x. Overall a great product - extremely useful, easy to use and implement, and it is also free. (although Mr. Allen appreciates donations for the use of his program)
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