The scourge of spam has started invading blog space.
Some of you may have noted the appearance of spam comments here. It appears that the motivation of the spammers is to increase their relevance on Google by scattering links to their chosen site on blogs. Once again, we see the trajedy of the commons in action.
I've tried to delete the spam comments as they come in, but in at least a couple cases, they leaked through because the comment notification e-mail that is sent to me actually was caught by my e-mail spam filter because the comment was that spammy.
Well, I've now installed the MT-blacklist plugin. It will make it more difficult for folks to post comments about viagra, diets, insurance and the like. If you are somehow trying to post a legitimate comment that concerns one of the topics, then I appologise for the inconvenience, but I can't imagine how any of the banned phrases would be on-topic here.
Try publishing your Email address as a GIF.
See
www.altruists.org/static/page.asp?id=168
for details.
Hope this helps:)
Posted by: Robin Upton at March 1, 2004 09:07 PMWrong kind of spam.. We're talking here about Movable Type comment spam.
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with this good work.