Spam attack continues

Harry Slaughter's picture

I noticed that the site has been under quite a spam attack. It's scripts from 2375 different IPs all trying to auto post based on urls from the old site.

I've banned all 2375 IPs. I banned all IPs that tried to access .php scripts on the new site as no legit user should be trying to do that.

If anyone has trouble logging in, give me your/their IP and I'll make sure they aren't in the banned list. Banned IPs will get a 503 response (service unavailable) from the site.

It generally takes several months for spammers to notice a site that is using a new system. Once they do, they will point all their appropriate scripts at the site in their spam efforts. Drupal offers some swell spam protection though. That and attentiveness by admins to spam that does manage to get through should allow for a pretty much spam free site.