And thank you, hrie@yahoo.com, for teaching me a valuable lesson
The Search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=hrie%40yahoo.com
The Suggestion:
Try putting the email address into the blacklist. Should work like a charm. The only problem of course is that the person can easily change email addresses in which case, you're only playing whack-a-mole.[. . .] I'm not sure that you need to, but you may want to escape the email address like user\@yahoo.com.
The Blacklist Entry:
hrie\@yahoo.com # The Problem Child
The Result:
Comment Submission ErrorYour comment submission failed for the following reasons:
Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: hrie@yahoo.comAnd it's all good.
Different IP addy and, ah, client for his or her entries, usually, but the same ol' email address. Easy enough to circumvent, and no doubt will be if enough MT-Blacklist users make that addition, but in the meantime?
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Comments
Thanks for that. hrie was fuckin' up my hairdo.
Posted by: Jason | May 30, 2004 3:20 PM
No worries. I liked it better when the spammers would just post one comment to an old-ass entry, instead of the current rage for hitting a few dozen entries, from several different IP addresses, all at once. You getting that, too?
Posted by: Aaron | May 30, 2004 5:48 PM
Even my crappy website is infected with it.
Posted by: Redpac | June 1, 2004 12:57 PM
I added a hidden form value on my comment pages...That way, any comments generated outside of my comment page are not allowed. After that, it was goodbye hrie and amelie!
You can find it at burningbird.
Posted by: yano | June 1, 2004 10:06 PM
yano, after deleting 30 or so messages that slipped past MT Blacklist this morning. . . I'm tempted.
Amelie? But I like Audrey Tatou. You mean she's evil now? Oh, right, French.
Redpac, remember to keep your blacklist updated. Seeing as we're on the same host, you maybe wanna try importing http://www.uppity-negro.com/blacklist.txt. Couldn't hurt, might help.
Posted by: Aaron | June 2, 2004 8:02 AM
Uppity-Negro, rock rock on.
This hrie bastard's been driving me up the wall, too. Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by: blunted | June 2, 2004 10:20 AM
Who is this guy, and what is his problem, anyway? I mean, he's incredibly prolific as a spammer, but that email address makes him way too easy to block. Also, he seems to have a problem with the (personal name) (family name) construction of western names.
Posted by: Mac Thomason | June 3, 2004 11:11 AM
Since the comments come from different IP addresses -- not even in the same block -- I'm guessing it's the default email in some automated comment-spam script that's making the rounds.
Please keep in mind,however, that I'm talking out of my ass.
Posted by: Aaron | June 3, 2004 11:34 AM