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I knew this day would come... again
After I was hit by the first wave of spam, I knew sooner or later i had to take active measures to protect my holy spot on the web. The first time there wasn't much of a problem since the comments didn't show up on the website, but now – as some of you might have noticed if you stumbled upon any of them – I've been receiving tips on pharmaceutical products which i don't need. Thank you very much. But this time, they were showing up in the comments feed and on the website itself. That just pissed me off. How dare they?
Anyway, I had to do something, so from this day forth – or at least until further notice – every time someone posts a comment for the first time, it will be left pending until I approve it. Just letting you guys and gals know.
Really dudes-who-write-spam-bots, you don't want to play this game with me. I'm really stubborn. But since I like challenges, and to avoid repeating myself, I'll just say:
Bring it on.
–Duke Nukem
Steve Williams on thu, 1 dec 2005 03:07
If this is true, then surely a concerted effort by everyone against spam could make a difference?
andr3 on thu, 1 dec 2005 03:31
Definitely. That's why i wrote . I'm going to keep track of all the spam i get, analyze the patterns and come up with some other tactic. I'm going to have a look at the ips, the headers and so on. Until now, i could have filtered all comments with the word "order" in them, but that's no way to fight spam.
For wordpress there's already Akismet, by Matt Mullenweg. I haven't looked into it, but I will. It would be nice if they had an open webservice, then I could link up my website and Akismet. From a quick look, things don't look good:
http://akismet.com/development/api/
I'm not going to create a blog at wordpress.com just to get Akismet working here... or am I?
Steve Williams on thu, 1 dec 2005 03:51
If I can help, let me know (I have 2 wordpress blogs - my own and a clients).
andr3 on thu, 1 dec 2005 04:07
cameroncaindesign on thu, 1 dec 2005 07:21
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