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Bad Behavior has the helm

I was hit with another spam flood tonight (Akismet did catch it) so I decided to give Bad Behavior another shot. I’m wondering how much traffic coming from MySpace is actually just spammers following links, so it’ll be interesting to see what this does to the referrers.

Anyway, if you have issues accessing my pages or commenting on posts, let me know (hopefully you know my email address by now).

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5 Responses to “Bad Behavior has the helm”

  1. Just How Many Anti-Spam Tools… :: ultramookie Says:
    July 18th, 2006 at 7:39 am

    [...] Just how many anti-spam tools are enough?  Following Ryan’s lead, I installed Bad Behavior on ultramookie.  This will work (hopefully) in conjunction with Akismet and Spam Karma.  I don’t get many spams slipping past Akismet or Spam Karma, but what’s a little more protection?   Bad Behavior is also advertised as blocking the bots from loading the pages through some automagical detection routines.  That’s something that I had been looking for ever since the move away from my home server which I could run mod_security on.  Let me know if you see any funkiness! [...]

  2. Jason Says:
    July 20th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    Hi Ryan,

    I came across one of your posts on some site regarding commuting. I live in Sacramento and am considering taking a job in San Francisco. How’s the commute? Is it tolerable? How long does it usually take you? Thanks, Jason

  3. Ryan Says:
    July 20th, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    it’s roughly 140 miles from Folsom to Sunnyvale. I leave around 8am and get to work around 10:30am. I drive down on Monday and back on Wednesday, spending the night with family on Monday and Tuesday.

    Tolerable? Yes. Favorable? No.

    If you’re heading into SF, look into Amtrak. They have a set of trains called the Capitol Corridor that go from downtown Sacramento to many stops in the Bay Area. In Emeryville they have a bus connection to get you to SF or you can stay on the train until Richmond and meet up with BART.

  4. mookie Says:
    July 23rd, 2006 at 8:37 am

    hey ryan, how’s bad behavior working out for you? after installing it on my side, i have only had 1 spam get through bad behavior — which it was then caught by akismet/spam karma. i’m very impressed.

  5. Ryan Says:
    July 23rd, 2006 at 10:41 am

    I’ve had about 20-25 sneak past Bad Behavior. I’ll know it’s helping if I can avoid the big spikes I sometimes see. I don’t mind the trickle, because they’re easy to scan in the Akismet log. But when I get a flood of 100+, it makes it harder to scan for false positives.

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