Previously I had some assitance in setting up blocking rule for selected pages on my website. I was very greatful for the help and advise here.
The pages blocked contained my contact information in an attempt to stop certain regions sending massive amounts of “I want a guest post on your website how much?” emails that are filling up my inbox every day.
With the help of members here, it does seem that some of this is being blocked
However, Compaired to the above mentioned stats, I am still getting flooded with annoying emails from these regions with new fresh email addresses.
Could it be possible this rule is not performing to it’s fullest? Maybe I need to tweak it using a a different expression?
I understand the possiblites of people using VPNs to get around this rule. However, I wouldent expect 100% of the entities flooding me with these emails are using them. Hecne why I question the performance of the rule.
The rule is setup to not alllow these regions to access my contact details pages and currently looks like this
(http.request.uri.path contains “contact-us” or http.request.uri.path contains “submission-options”) and ip.geoip.country in {“IN” “PK” “RU”}
Understanding that this is correct suggested method, Is it possible that this rule might not be performing so well and a different expression could help the reduction of access to these geo blocked pages?
I do have an email spam filter setup on my webhiost also, However, I can’t make this too strong due to blocking possible legit non spammy emails.
It’s also possible my email address is on some kind of "List’ these “Guest Post Resellers” pass around among themselves. This is something I understand and I am aware of. However, I jumped on several VPN IPs in these regions, some get blocked and some don’t
Any advise, improvments on my current rule? Could these entities be on the boarders of these regions hence this is why not being captured by the rule?
