Spam comments

Posted on August 23, 2006
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The downside of using a popular content management system for gulker.com (I guess it’s time for ‘beta’ to come off) is that spammers have figured out how to automate the addition of spam to the comments feature (and the volume is starting to get annoying). I know there’s a couple of ways to fix WordPress for same. Our old Reblogger perl scripts hadn’t made it onto the spammers’ radar…

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2 Responses to “Spam comments”

  1. pauldwaite on August 23rd, 2006 11:34 am

    I think Charles Arthur is pretty happpy with his comment spam filter, but I can’t remember (nor find via Google) which he uses.

  2. cg on August 23rd, 2006 12:45 pm

    Hmmm… I’ll have to ping the estimable Mr. Arthur…

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