Troubles with black lists
So, until today, I had the anti-spam plug-in here at the blog. It basically functions in a way that it compares the content of the comment with URLs from the black lists on the surbl.org and if the URL is found, it redirects you to http://127.0.0.1/ (a.k.a. localhost).
My assumption (and you’re here to tell me if I’m wrong) is that all those lists eventually become filled with legitimate (non-spam) URLs. And that would explain why some of my visitors (thanks to Jens for reporting it) couldn’t submit their comments. All I can say is – sorry for the inconvenience!
001—2006.06.22.10:36
try Akismet… or if you don’t have time to upgrade wordpress, try Spam Karma
002—2006.06.22.14:18
Indeed, try akismet. It’s incredible. Since installing it (wp plugin) it has caught every spam comment (>1000 in 2 wks), no false-positives and no false-negatives.
Incredible, I don’t know how they do it. But even if I had to pay25$ for it I would do it without thinking.