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While this is totally a reactive approach to dealing with the spam bots posting comments I thought I’d share the clean-up project. In the end I have to give the bots credit for being so kind in nature of appreciative comments. It’s easy to get a big head reading the comments even though they are clearly bots with scripted content.

Attached is the project along with the XML block list. The block list is not complete with equal email, author, IP, and website listing for all the comment postings I received. It was sufficient enough for my needs to clean the comments up. The list may vary depending on the different bots that have visited the blog site, but should allow anyone in the same situation to clean up the mess. The code is roughly written and meant for a one-off cleanup, but below is the code along with the full project that includes the XML block list.

Blog Comment Cleaner Utility

Please note the project was created with Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 in case of difficulty opening the solution file.

Example Command Line:

BlogCommentCleaner.exe “c:\blog\App_Data\posts” “c:\blog\App_Data\block.xml”