Published December 20th, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran
Fighting Comment Spam
In the last 48 hours my blog received something like 700 successful (i.e. not blocked by MT-Blacklist) spam attempts. THis is in addition to something like 1000 comments that were denied by MT-Blacklist.
One day I’d like to do an analysis of the amount of traffic comment spam is generating on my web site. However, with 1700 incidents in around 48 hours, I’d guess it would be a significant portion of the overall traffic (i.e. 10% or more).
However, the Learning MT Blog has an excellent article Concerning Spam, including a number of techniques for dealing with comment spam that I wasn’t aware of.
Spammers have discovered bloggers and sooner or later if you allow comments, trackback pings, or the Movable Type send-entry form on your weblog you will get spammed.
Kirk McPike Says
Were you ever able to get proper video on your hp laptop? I’m having the same “won’t go to 1280×800″ issue, and I’m about ready to go back to Windows because of it.
Dec 30th, 2004 at 4:34 am