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1. tangognat
   October 20th, 2004 at 2:52 pm
   

   I had no problems upgrading…I was getting hit by automated comment spam a couple days ago and I ended up following this advice from the wordpress support forum:
   http://politedissent.com/archives/336/
   So far, the spammers haven’t come back. I think there are a few comment spam plugins you could install too.

2. Augie De Blieck Jr.
   October 22nd, 2004 at 9:09 am
   

   At one point, it got so bad on my WordPress-powered blog that I used a plug-in that allowed me to shut off all comments older than a certain number of days. Since older stories don’t ever get comments, I did that and all the spamming stopped immediately. A couple days later, I went back in and re-opened it all.

   I just opened a new blog last week. Three days later, I was getting spammed by the same freaks again. They give Texas Hold Em Poker a bad name, the jerks.

   But with the right settings, the basic WordPress controls should take care of things for you. Good luck weathering out the storm.

3. scott
   October 22nd, 2004 at 12:12 pm
   

   The storm seems to have died down. At one point, I was receiving a spam comment about every 2 minutes, and had 500 for the day overall (thankfully I managed to block most before they reached the site)

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