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  48                         <h3 class="entry-header">Comment Spam blocking</h3>
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  51                               <p>Found the following from <a href="http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2904">Dvorak Uncensored</a>:
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  53 <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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  55 <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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  58     < location /blog/wp-comments-newpost.php >
  59     RewriteEngine On
  60     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*dvorak.org/.*
  61     RewriteRule ^.* http://www.ctyme.com/comment-spam.html
  62     < /location >
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  65 <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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  67 <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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  74                            <span class="post-footers">Posted by Andrew DeFaria on September 28, 2005 01:11 PM</span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/000433.html">Permalink</a>
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