Simple, start using SSL.
Not entirely sure why this keeps spambots away, but a drop from ~100 spam comments/day (1/2) to at most 4 seems pretty cool.
Edit: seems like they just do a POST request to an old URL (http://blog.tuinslak.org/some-post), which results in this reply:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/0.9.4
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:10:24 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 184
Connection: close
Location: https://blog.tuinslak.org/
I’m guessing once they rescan the new URLs they’ll be spamming again. Just a matter of time for them to update their “bookmarks”. 😉
Anyway, here’s the Akismet screenshot:
Pretty cool, no ?
Totals can be found here.
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