Just a small question related to my hunt for banning a spammer.
The IP address of the comment poster.
Regular support question. Belongs into support board. Moving accordingly.
ok .. the ip, but I also spot (many different) IP's at msg_raw_ip.
Whats the difference between both?
What do you mean?
I see in mysql two rows related to IP's.
One beeing msg_raw_ip and the other msg_hdr_ip.
I am beeing honoured by a spammer that likes to leave comments on my photography.
The field 'msg_raw_ip' is always different, while msg_hdr_ip continous to be the same (of that same user).
So I was wondering..
I guess my spammer found a way to have different msg_hdr_ip's, but cannot escape from msg_raw_ip.
raw ip is from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
header ip is from $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] if available.
Thank's!
Is there a mod that will hang the spammer by it's balls? (not a serious question).
It's very frustrating to have my pictures commented with the kind of comments he leave...
As suggested various times, there are 4 options to fight the spam problem:
1) Disable anonymous comments
2) Apply the captcha plugin or mod
3) Apply the Akismet mod
4) If you're adventurous and not afraid of alpha-stage software, check out the devel branch of the SVN and use the comment approval feature there (keep in mind that the devel version goes completely, utterly unsupported)
Yeah! thanks for that as well.
I had some oxygen, and feel a lot better now.
I'm gonne have a look at these solutions later on.
Another suggestion: don't even bother to ban spammers by IP, they spoof it anyway and will return later with another set of IP addresses.