Well, either one of two things has happened
- The comment spammer has finished this cycle of spamming and gone away
- My .zip file of death has annoyed him enough to give up.
Since i changed my wp-comments file to write back 47MB zip file, I haven’t had a single comment spam attempt.
Don’t worry, you won’t get the file, I’ve made sure thats okay.
Anybody else have a similar experience?
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Funny stuff
How much bandwith did you waste ?
your plug in is just interesting. haha
yeah, how much bandwidth did you waste?
That’s great! Must have killed your bandwidth.
Actually, I used very little, they gave up almost immediately!
Sorry Im testing your spam block thingy..:D
Please tell me how you did that (as simply as possible, nurse here not techie) if you don’t mind…I would LOVE to hit ‘em back!
Using a script to send a large file back to a spammer, while a pretty funny idea, might not be such a good thing. I’m not sure how you did it, but wouldn’t there be a problem if the spammer uses a bot (or botnet) that he/she has planted on some innocent server? I’m no expert , so just wondering out loud…
*shrug*
If people won’t take precautions and let their systems be compromised that way, then my ‘bomb’ is likely to be the least of someones troubles.
They might set the computer up to distribute illegal software or movies – they could use it for identity theft – I think my little download idea is unlikely to cause a problem
Snarf!
I have just installed your plugin and made a few mods. I thought it wasn’t working at first (like others) because I was logged in, so I added:
Thank you for logging in; no need to test your maths skills!
between
if (isset($user_ID)) {
?>
and
Thanks for the plugin. It works great.
I like the idea of Richard’s post #9 above, but part of it seems to be missing. Any chance you could add that to v3.2?
BTW, I emailed last week that your web site indicates the latest version is 3.1, but the downloaded code still indicates Version: 3.0. Is that a typo?
Finally, some of my blog admins complain that if they type the wrong answer for Did You Pass Math, their comment is not retained. Occasionally, a comment can be well ‘thought-out’ (read: *looooong*), and it gets lost if the dypm answer is incorrect. Some browsers preserve the comment if you hit the ‘back’ button, but others do not.
Do you have any ideas about how to retain the comment?
Thanks for a great plugin!
Thanks a lot for your plugin. Its been a lot of help to me