Travis Snoozy wrote:
Assuming that the majority of this spam is generated via botnets (which I think is a pretty safe bet), you're not banning spammers so much as innocent schmucks who have had their computer hijacked -- or worse, innocent schmucks behind the same NAT as some *other* poor schmuck who has had their computer hijacked.
This is true, banning IPs has an extremely high false positive rate. There is a plugin to add frequently caught spam IPs to an .htaccess file, presumably to save server resources. However it's not something we're going to add to the Akismet plugin.
I'd much prefer to see accessible CAPTCHA support integrated into core WordPress. While it won't solve the problem, it'll make posting a much bigger pain in the butt for spammers, and is a reasonable middle-ground between super-easy posting and requiring a user account.
That would do nothing for trackbacks and pingbacks. Trackbacks are responsible for the vast majority of spam.
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