6 month ago
Rod Begbie : TypePad AntiSpam - SixApart launch an Akismet-compatible anti-comment-spam system, with a GPL'd open-source backend available for customized installs. I've tweaked my blog to run it, so we'll see how it does. [via] #
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : The B-List: Hacking comments without hacking comments - Django project to bulk-up the built-in comments to make them less spammable. I did a bunch of this by hand -- good to see it implemented in a shareable manner. [via] #
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20 month ago
Simon Willison : Introducing http:BL - Introducing http:BL. Project Honey Pot announce a new blacklist service for blocking comment spammers and e-mail spiders using information from their network of honey pots. [via]
Rod Begbie : Introducing http:BL | Project Honey Pot - Project Honey Pot announce a blacklist for IP addresses known to comment spam. This could be easy to integrate with a Django middleware... #
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : Tracking Comment Spammers | Project Honey Pot - Project Honey Pot's traps are now presenting spiders with forms that resemble comments/guestbooks/forums to try to gather some data on comment spamming. If you have a web site, it's well worth installing the honeypot (or linking to a QuickLink) to help t #
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28 month ago
Rod Begbie : "I live at" "Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?" - Google Search - Bizarre comment spam. The number changes each time, but it's usually "from" mikef@gmail.com and links to google.com. #
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30 month ago
philgyford : Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan - Movable Type plug-in that automatically updates an .htaccess file with IP addresses posting spam comments/trackbacks to your site, banning them.
Rod Begbie : Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan - MT plugin that adds "Deny" entries to your .htaccess file when someone's clobbering you with comment spam, saving you the CPU cycles. I've installed it -- if it works, I'll be giddy as a schoolgirl. [via] #
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Akismet purports to be a very good spam blocker for MT - I tried renaming the MT-comments.cgi script and I have to say it had no effect whatsoever as far as I could tell. I'll try this plugin that I've been recommended before I give up completely...
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38 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Akismet - Akismet: Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam
kayodeok : Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam - Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again
philgyford : Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet - Intriguing anti-spam solution for weblogs and pretty much any site with user-submitted content.
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40 month ago
gleuschk : I don't understand the flickr community anymore - who are all these commenters, and why? is there any sense behind any of these?
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plasticbag : Check out the comments after this blog post - How depressing. Comment spammers are - I think - even more reprehensibly bottom-feeding than the human charity spam on the streets that harrass you on the way to work...
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47 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Spam breeds more spam - Spam breeds more spam: this confirms my suspicion
Andy Baio : Untouched comment spam breeds more spam - comment spammers search for vulnerable sites in Google [via] [via]
plasticbag : Spam breeds more spam - Weblogs where comment spam is left untended appears to attract even more comment spam. Which would suggest that it should be quite easy for Google or whoever to start redressing the page rank (if they're not doing it already)...
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