D’Arcy Norman has figured out a quick htaccess method to stop those sploggers from doing their automated signups. Head on over to his blog for the details.
Another way to stop spam blogs
May 20, 2009 By
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Thanks for this… I just finished dropping about 1200 tables in my WPMU database from spammers creating blogs.
Why not just delete the wp-signup.php script though… would that be sufficient?
Why not just close signups then? If you delete the file, nobody can signup. You could also rename the signup file. There’s about 4 lines inside the file that have the filename as well.