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My wordpress blog has wp-spamfree installed and protecting me from spam comments.

It does a great job and I heartily recommend it.

One of the features is a log file with the contents of any spam comments so you can check for false positives or to see just how much spam your blog is being protected from.
The log file defaults to [yourserver]/wp-content/plugins/wp-spamfree/data/temp-comments-log.txt

I tried to read mine but I got a 403 forbidden error and couldn’t figure out why, I had a standard install.

I tracked it down to the .htaccess file in /wp-content/plugins/wp-spamfree/data/ which has[code]SetEnvIfNoCase Referer http://labby\.co\.uk/wordpress/wp-admin/ wpsf_access
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^my.ip.address$ wpsf_access

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from env=wpsf_access
[/code]Insert the line with my.ip.address above and add your own IP address, save and you should be up and running.

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Another day, another unknown email spammer brought down.

Gregory –
Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here’s something to be happy
about — today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously
unknown email harvester (IP: 92.26.102.158). The harvester was
caught a spam trap email address created with your donated MX:

mail2.labby.co.uk

You can find information about your newly identified harvester here:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_92.26.102.158

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I donated some of my domain MX records to http://www.projecthoneypot.org and just got an email telling me:

Gregory –
Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here’s something to be happy about — today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously unknown email harvester (IP: 74.170.107.247). The harvester was caught a spam trap email address created with your donated MX:
mail2.labby.co.uk
You can find information about your newly identified harvester here:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_74.170.107.247

Don’t forget to tell your friends you made the Internet a little better
today. You can refer them to Project Honey Pot directly from our
website:

You’ve chosen to receive this message every time one of your honey pots or donated MXs helps identify a new harvester. We don’t blame you, we’re constantly checking in to see what we’ve caught. However, if you’re sick of these messages, you can turn them off by visiting your settings page:

Thanks from the entire Project Honey Pot team and, we’re sure if they knew, from the Internet community as a whole.

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