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November 29, 2003

I don't know if everyone has seen a huge decrease in blog spam, or if my simple blog spam counter-measures have just paid off, but it's way down for me. In fact, I haven't received a single piece of blog spam in over a week now.

Besides the technical changes I made, I've also been deleting spam within minutes of it being posted, which hopefully helps to deter manual spammers over the long run, as they realize what a waste of their time it is.

Posted @ 11:45 AM by Grant | TrackBack

I think those deleting thingy helps. I delete comments spam as soon as it arrives in my mail box. Or are they waiting and watching due to the google change http://www.search-this.com/google/google_algo_update.asp

I follow the same Brajeshwar's strategy...
What about the spam vulnerability of Movable Type with the mt-send-entry.cgi script? I wrote a note about that here:
http://www.actionscripthero.com/blog/archives/000131.php
I recommend you to take action, and inform your colleagues.
Peace.

I forget to tell you that there is a new version of Movable Type coming in the next 2 months. You can support the requested feature to put a solution to comment spam. I wrote another note about that here:
http://www.actionscripthero.com/blog/archives/000126.php
I was a victim of a horrible comment attack: In one weekend I got 85 spam comments... thanks to Brajeshwar by the way who help me.
The record is for Jesse Warden:
280 spam comments in a few hours!!