Spamhuntress

Found this via The War on Spam:

Online Spam Fighting Tools

This is a place where you can report incorrect whois data:

http://wdprs.internic.net/

Remember that Moniker just requires the owner of the domain to change a comma, and they’ll accept the new version. But other registrars are a lot stricter.

We’ve got trackback moderation for Movable Type, finally.

Jay Allen announces plugin news.

Update April 14
When I got trackbacks when that moderation plugin installed, the mails I got said the trackbacks had been moderated. So I didn’t clean the blog, thinking I’d do it later, since the trackbacks weren’t visible. Problem is, they had been visible the whole time. The plugin hadn’t worked. So if you install it, please make sure the trackbacks aren’t visible. It was quite embarassing to have an anti-spam blog all spammed… But the moderate plugin is good for comments. If you’ve approved comments from a poster before, they will be automatically approved. That’s different from the standard moderate setting on MT.

There’s a pretty nifty tool out there that I’ve used on occasion if I wanted to see if my .htaccess blocks of certain user agents are working:

http://www.wannabrowser.com/

Just remember if you get that one in your logs, it’s NOT a referrer spammer! The tool often puts the site in the referrer, which is correct since it actually loads your page (well, usually the code) on that page, so it does access from that site.

I’d just hate to see that one reported to Google just because of a hair triggered spam hunter.

Sam Spade does what wannabrowser does - better. But if you need a different IP number, then wannabrowser is good.

http://www.webhosting.info/

Just enter the IP address in the form, and double check that Domain name is ticked, then click Go.