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	<title>My Thoughts &#187; stop spam</title>
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		<title>Stop spammers in your htaccess</title>
		<link>http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/10/08/stop-spammers-in-your-htaccess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year a go I wrote an article on how to stop spammers by adding them in your .htaccess file. In the article I mention a Python script that does the work for me. Well I decided, thanks to a comment in the article to publish the program here. The Python program is called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update WordPress Plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam v1.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of the WordPress plugin AVH First Defense Against Spam has been released today. This release adds a new feature to stop spammers. The changes made in this release: Added security to protect against spammers directly posting comments by accessing wp-comments-post.php. An email can be received of a spammer trying posting directly. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update WordPress Plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam v1.1</title>
		<link>http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/04/02/update-wordpress-plugin-avh-first-defense-against-spam-v11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.avirtualhome.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new version of the WordPress plugin AVH First Defense Against Spam has been released today. The changes made in this release: Ability to report a spammer to Stop Forum Spam if you sign up on their website and get an API key (it&#8217;s free). Added a link in the emails to add an IP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New WordPress plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam</title>
		<link>http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/03/17/new-wordpress-plugin-avh-first-defense-against-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I released a new WordPress plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam. The AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served. Spammers are identified by checking if the visitors IP exists in a database served by stopforumspam.com or by a local blacklist. Some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spammers trying to access my blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/03/10/spammers-trying-to-access-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November of last year I suddenly got a more than usual amount of spammers hitting my blog and forum. I wrote a Python program that will retrieve my access logs, my htaccess file and a list from the website stopforumspam.com. It will update the htaccess file and can upload it back to the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop forum spammers in your htaccess</title>
		<link>http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/11/25/stop-forum-spammers-in-your-htaccess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having spammers hit your blog or forum? Why not block them by rules in htaccess to start with! Adding the spammers IP to your htaccess file keeps it from hitting your site to start with and keeping the website more accessible for the real users. With the help of a website and a small Python [...]]]></description>
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