Dealing with comment and trackback spam

Does anyone have suggestions on how to deal with spam? I've
been going
through my posts and noticed that there are some with
hundreds of
trackbacks or comments. Deleting each one by hand would not
be
practical. I could delete a bunch using script/console ...
I'd prefer a
more automated way of dealing with this, though. For
example, is there a
way to moderate these or to delete more than one at a time?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Jen

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With 4.0?  The feedback tab will let you deal with a whole
page at a
time.  My usual approach is to search for a spam wordd,
select all of
the messages, and then skim through and uncheck anything
that *isn't*
spam.  Then hit 'delete all'.


Scott

On 7/25/06, jennyw <jennywdangerousideas.com>
wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to deal with spam?
I've been going
> through my posts and noticed that there are some with
hundreds of
> trackbacks or comments. Deleting each one by hand would
not be
> practical. I could delete a bunch using script/console
... I'd prefer a
> more automated way of dealing with this, though. For
example, is there a
> way to moderate these or to delete more than one at a
time?
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Typo-listrubyforge.org
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>
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jennyw wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to deal with spam?

I use the PostgreSQL command line client and type in a raw
SQL command 
to zap it 

I did think about writing some command line tools for Typo
maintenance, 
so you could do

zap --from '*userhost*'

and it would zap comments according to the regex.


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Thanks for the suggestions for deleting spam!

Are there suggestions for preventing it?

Jen

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