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  45                         <h3 class="entry-header">Comment Spam blocking</h3>
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  48                               <p>Found the following from <a href="http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2904">Dvorak Uncensored</a>:
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  50 <blockquote><p>Most people who run blogs have issues with comment spam in their blogs and there are all sorts of fixes. Marc Perkel at ctyme.com – my host — was floored, he said, when he realized a simple command to the Apache software would kill most of it — and it does indeed work!</p>
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  52 <p>Here is the short code running on the ctyme server for my dvorak.org using WordPress-based blogging software. Altering it for other blog software and other blogs should be simple for anyone running Apache.</p>
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  55 &lt;location /blog/wp-comments-newpost.php&gt;
  56     RewriteEngine On
  57     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*dvorak.org/.*
  58     RewriteRule ^.* http://www.ctyme.com/comment-spam.html
  59 &lt;/location&gt;
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  62 <p>Essentially it makes the basic condition for any post rigid: it has to be coming from a link within the blog itself, the “comment” link. Most spam does not.</p>
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  64 <p>My spam count on the blog has dropped from 50-100 to 2 per day without any other tricks.</p></blockquote>
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  67                                  <span class="post-footers">Posted by Andrew DeFaria at 01:16 PM</span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://defaria.com/blogs/General/archives/000434.html">Permalink</a>
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