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November 5, 2004
Stopping Comment Spam
Like many webloggers, I've been faced with a large amount of comment spam, lately. E-mail spam is bad enough. USENET has faced an avalache of spam on its newsgroups. If that wasn't enough, now the open comments in weblogs get clogged with advertising spam meant both to grab everyone's attention and to Google-bomb the search engines. It looks like I've found a solution that runs on the MovableType weblogging software. MT Blacklist is a plugin for MovableType that filters out spam in comments in much the same way that e-mail spam filters work-- by scanning and deleting comments that contain a large number of hyperlinks and match up with known spam already being circulated. We'll see how it works.
Posted by Dean at November 5, 2004 9:56 AM
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