What kind of spam are you getting? I'm going to guess 'trackback'. Did I win? So far pretty much nothing stops them from spamming you via trackback. I always turn that feature off.

Here are some examples...

07/31/07 07:53:10 am Computerspiele http://astore.amazon.de/computer-spiele-21 88.134.232.14 Computer Spieleyeah thats what I ment, i didnt remember the spelling b...

07/31/07 08:43:59 am Free Flash Games http://www.bigfootgame.com 195.71.90.10 Free Flash GamesThis site rock!

I guess some of them are trackbacks. But damn, it's getting annoying! Any suggestions besides me drinking a nice cold one to calm down?

Suggestions? Yeah sure.

First, know your enemy. Specifically, exactly what type of spam are you experiencing? I really REALLY doubt it is comment spam because captcha and STT are quite capable of blocking that stuff. The type of thing you showed is not referer spam, so I'm going to guess (again) that it's trackback spam. Guessing is not good enough - you have to know what you're being hit with in order to combat it.

Hey just turn off trackbacks and see if that cuts the problem. It's a back office setting on "blog settings" then one of the subtabs.

Next: you said you had banned certain words, but have you deleted/reported/banned the offending domain name? Click the ban symbol if it is provided in a URL field, or, copy the link and paste THAT into the field on the antispam tab. Words don't matter. Words are NOT why spammers do what they do. LINKS is what matters, so ban the URL they are trying to promote. Delete the garbage from your blog, ban it from ever being promoted on your blog again, and report it so that all users can benefit from the fact that you know it's a spammer.

Finally, pour a tall cold one and laugh at the world cuz it's a pretty funny place when you lubricate your brain cells properly :D

I wrote a small plugin to stop trackback spam: http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=12041 I haven't received a single spam trackback in , I think, three weeks, Legitimate trackbacks have passed as expected. Maybe you can give it a try a let me know if it works. So far, I'm the only one I know is using it :-)

EdB wrote:

Finally, pour a tall cold one and laugh at the world cuz it's a pretty funny place when you lubricate your brain cells properly :D

Absolutely! Will do that!

And Austriaco, I'll give that plug in a shot.

Cheers!

Just an update... that trackback plugin is working like a charm! Cheers, Austriaco!