This video shows a new WordPress plugin, coming soon available now, which will integrate Google Analytics stats for your blog and your MailChimp email campaigns, right inside WordPress. . [...]
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WordPress + MailChimp + Analytics = Awesomeness
Posted in WordPress Also tagged analytics, app, blog stats, Google, google analytics, mailchimp, newsletters, plugin, Plugins, Statistics, stats, WordPress, wordpress stats 22 Comments
Awesome spam filtering for WordPress
I’ve always felt that Akismet does a pretty good job of filtering out spam. After all, since I started using it, Akismet has caught around 500,000 spam comments for me. But a few months ago, I decided to try out a different anti-spam plugin that caught my eye. . [...]
Posted in WordPress Also tagged Akismet, antispam anti-spam, blacklist, comments, harvesters, httpbl, project honeypot, Spam, spammers, WordPress, wordpresswednesday 20 Comments
Whither Spam?
When I switched to my new Slicehost server, I spent a while trying to decide what I wanted to do about email for my domains. I contemplated using Google’s domain email service, or some other third-party email hosting. But I just hated giving up that much control of my email setup. [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Servers, Services, Software, Spam, Tech Also tagged antivirus, clamav, email spam, fighting spam, Linux, mail, mailscanner, mailwatch, Servers, slicehost, smtp, Spam, spamassassin, spamsnake, Ubuntu 4 Comments
SpamValve Download
I only had a couple of responses to my call for SpamValve testers. One of the testers has already begun using SpamValve on his FreeBSD server. The other is tied up at the moment, but is going to attempt to adapt it to work on a Linux server sometime next week.
In the meantime, I’ve started using it to filter spam hits to my mail service. This was accomplished with a one-liner:
tail -0f /var/log/maillog | \
perl -e 'while(<>){ m/Mail from (.*) rejected/; \
system("/usr/local/sbin/svupdate", $1) if $1;}'
The command above watches the end of my sendmail log for entries indicating messages rejected by RBL checks. [...]
Spammers should all DIE DIE DIE
I am so sick of the damn spammers. Spammers are teh sux0r. Spammers are a festering boil on the ass of the Internets. I wouldn’t let a spammer kiss my butt with a pair of wax lips from ten feet away. If I ever see a spammer bleeding in a ditch, I will not be a Good Samaritan, I will kick him in the head, cover him up with dirt, and leave him there to rot.
Over the past few weeks, the comment spam has been coming in so thick that I’ve had to start blocking IPs at the firewall level. I’m currently blocking over 40 IPs, plus an entire Class C block out of Mexico. My normal blacklist blocks prevent the spam from showing up on the blog anyhow, but they were coming in so fast and furious that Apache and MySQL were grinding to a halt under the load.
On top of that, the email spam has been spiking up, too. [...]
Server problems
I’m sure some of you have noticed that I’m experiencing occassional server problems. The host I’m on has been overtaxed, mostly due to spammer activity (both web and email varieties). There are times when the server load spikes up into the 20s, which is ridiculously high. To combat the problem, I set up a cron job which monitors the load level, and restarts apache and mysql when it goes above a certain threshold. However, for some reason, the mysql database server sometimes fails to restart properly. I’ve just added another monitor program which should fix that, so the database should never stay down for more than a couple of minutes. [...]
Friggin Fraudsters
I have gotten several spams recently, both in my personal email and at my work address, from someone trying to scam PayPal accounts. The text of the message looks like this:
Dear PayPal member,
We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.
To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. [...]
Analytics360 Plugin for WordPress
I’ve installed it here, and since I’ve already been gathering Google Analytics stats on this site, it immediately showed me my current activity. [...]