Comments on: Bad Behavior 2 Update

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:29:46 +0000

Yeah yeah, MS sucks, etc. I used to be a Palm fan. In fact my wife still calls every PDA I’ve owned since then my Palm Pilot. But Palm lost, man.

Learning anything with the bb+akismet test?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:45:45 +0000

Hm, if the submit button doesn’t work, it’s Pocket IE’s fault. Go get a Palm Powered smartphone instead.

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:43:12 +0000

Meant to post this the other day, but found that your comment submit button doesn’t work in Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 5.0. I know mine does. Do you do some extra jscript there or something? …on to the real comment:

I’m with the wiki guy above. BB is great, BB is good. But it doesn’t catch the kind of wikispam I get. I’m sure its doing a bang up job of referrer spam, and maybe its killing a lot of stuff I never see. But a lot passes through. That being said, as you may know if you got that email I sent to you a few days ago, the wiki spam I was getting did have a certain http header pattern. I don’t know if what I saw was typical but only the bots were doing it so I felt pretty confident about adding a filter for it to bad-behavior-http-headers.php. The header is ‘Expect’ and the value was ’100-continue’.

Ok that’s the story. My suggestion for BB would be to have an integrated log parsing utility which one could comb through in order to find patterns of missed spam, and then with a few clicks, add new filter rules.

Keep up the good work.

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MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 3/27/06 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:18:49 +0000

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By: Sy Ali

Sy Ali — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:54:34 +0000

Good to hear you’re still alive. =) I love the idea of Bad Behaviour, and I hope you get the time and funds to see it to maturity.

By: beev

beev — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:33:19 +0000

Thanks.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:03:30 +0000

Bad Behaviour Stats is a plugin. Google will tell you where it is (because I don’t remember).

By: beev

beev — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:01:55 +0000

Where do I find the stats?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:38:31 +0000

Bad Behaviour Stats will tell you that.

By: beev

beev — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:26:00 +0000

I don’t know how I’m supposed to know how effective Bad Behaviour is. I’ve been using it on my WordPress blog for many months, though recently the amount of spam getting through has been high. But how can I know how much has been blocked?