Most hits must be from bots!

Most hits to this site must be from bots!  Why?  Well, the content isn’t overly exciting or stimulating and most entries are written in under 5 minutes which would reflect on the quality of them.  Also, the vast majority of comments were comment spam with 100s of links in the comment.

All this comment spam was filling my mailbox with moderator messages for the comments which was really starting to get annoying.  Looked at a number of plugins for wordpress and found a one called NoSpamNX by Sven Kubiak.

Since installing this plugin I’ve had no comment spams, but, the only comments that have come through are from my tests… another reason why it’s only bots watching. 🙂

rblsmtpd 451 Sender has sent to LashBack

Bounce message received:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]

Malformed SMTP reply from mail.server.com [192168.1.1]
in response to initial connection:
rblsmtpd: 192.168.6.62 pid 14483: 451 Sender has sent to LashBack
Unsubscribe Probe accounts:
retry timeout exceeded

Looking further into this it appears that the sending IP address was listed in a RBL black list.  The RBL server being queried was: ubl.unsubscore.com

This in turn (www.unsubscore.com) took me to: http://www.lashback.com/support/UnsubscribeBlacklistSupport.aspx

Most RBL systems return a useful message with a URL, but, not lashback.