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October 29, 2003
Blog Spam
Thanks to Kyle for pointing out that one blog spam comment did make it through despite my best efforts to not allow this. I've been reading about the rise of blog spam for awhile, and some of the current ideas on how to battle this or what it might even look like.
Unfortunately I don't think it's going to go away anytime soon, but I think an MT plugin that handled comment spam would help. For example take each incoming comment field, pipe it through Spam Assassin or DCCd and give it a procmail like examination. I'm sure the hack for doing this could be easily accomplished if my Perl skills were of any quality type. I personally don't see a difference between spam email and spam comments, except for the fact that spam comments have no useful headers. Hrm, maybe I will try hacking up a quickie test...
Posted by Dan at October 29, 2003 08:49 PM