comment spam part II
Posted by jonathan - 27/12/07 at 09:12:32 am
Strange things happen in order to sell crap on the internet. I posted recently about the joys of comment spam combat since picking up the blog habit again. After posting a few items I was flooded with a 100 items of ridiculousness. I had comment moderation turned on but that does not seem democratic enough to me. I turned it off and opted in for a 3p service enabling the Akismet wordpress plug-in and a captcha filter. My buddy, Noam, informed me he could not post so I turned off these features, but for some reason the comment spam has failed to resurface.
Could the timing be related to indexing? Could it be that the spammers target bigger sites and somehow figured out the relative unimportance of my postings? Could the deluge be right around the corner and I’m just sitting here in Johnstown. Not like I’m going to implement anything soon, but I came across these two interesting posts lately.
NyTimes - Spammers Employ Stripper to Crack Security
Ned Batchhelder - Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots
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