Spam Prevention: Invalid message.

[Kevin]

I have a serendipity blog on a hosted server that has been giving me some problems with comments. Sometimes, but not always, when people try to post comments they get this message

Spam Prevention: Invalid message.

It then tells then that comments for this entry have been disabled. I have checked and checked again and I'm positive that I have comments enabled. Any thoughts on what I might need to tweak to get this working. You can view the problem yourself at http://www.kdthompson.com/cblog

Thanks for any tips you can provide.

[MySchizoBuddy]

i get the same complaint too
even though it says it prevents them the comment is still entered the database. so it does show up

I think it prevents them from posting 2 comments rapidly one after another.

[garvinhicking]

That message can happen if a comment is set to auto-moderation. The spamblock plugin has some means that return generic "Invalid message" strings so that spammers cannot detect why their content was blocked.

Those are:

1. Rapid posting of the same IP (if enabled in config) within a given timeframe
2. Posting of a comment which the same content that already exists
3. Filtered author names, filtered URLs

So you can influence all three of them via the spamblock config.

Regards,
Garvin

[yrstruly]

i know this an old post, but i'm wondering if it's possible to disable the spam prevention plugin. there's a way to delete it but if i do that will i be able to re-install it? if not, can i just disable it for a while? it's truly annoying for me, as the author, to not be able to respond to several posts in a row. i've tried changing the "ip block interval" to every 0 minutes but that hasn't helped.

any ideas?

thanks.

yrstruly.

[garvinhicking]

Sure, you can disable the spam prevention plugin by going to your s9y Admin suite, go to plugin configuration and check the plugin. Then click on "Delete".

You can re-install it later anytime you like.

If you disabled your IP-Block interval, it might be something other that interferes for you. Did you enable the spamblock logging, and looked at the logfile table or logfile file?

Best regards,
Garvin