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March 31, 2004I'm gonna wash that spam right out of my hair...I discovered some spam in my comments about a month ago and was a little alarmed. They appeared in posts that were a little old and so escaped my notice. Such stoopid spam too -- what the hell are 'penis-pills'? Would anyone be attracted by such a cheesy come-on? I blocked the IPs of the senders and thought no more about it. But yesterday I discovered I was again infested with this crap, again in my old posts. One post had 15 ads for herbal viagra and orgasm cream. I blocked the IPs again but doubted it would do anything. I had to stop it for good. I found this page, which has suggestions and links to useful tools. On that page is a link to Junkeater, which I've implemented. It forces the commenter to copy a string of digits from an image -- something a spam 'bot would find impossible. Junkeater was designed for guestbooks on homepages, but works for Movable Type blogs as well. The instructions on how to do that can be found here. The only bit that wasn't too clear was in the setup. Everything refers to the 'guestbook' rather than the 'blog'. I just entered the blog URL where it wanted the guestbook URL, and the comment URL for the post URL and it worked fine. You'll have to edit the comment template and the individual entry archive template to get it to work. We can beat spam in our lifetime, I believe it. Posted by Bruce Gottfred at March 31, 2004 10:26 AM | TrackBackComments
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