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by Jeff Atwood

August 08, 2004

Comment Spam

I like the way anyone can leave a comment regarding my posts-- the only good discussion is a two-way discussion-- but the comment spam is getting way out of hand (viagra, gambling, penis enlargement, ad nauseam). Thank goodness, then, for MT-blacklist, a simple anti-spam plugin for Movable Type.

As promised, very easy to install, and based on a few of my tests, it definitely works! If you're interested-- and if you are using Movable Type 2.x, you should be-- check out the documentation for details.

p.s. SUCK IT SPAMMERS!

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Interesting article on why comment spam matters-- Google page rank.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?pg=7

Jeff Atwood on August 14, 2004 02:54 AM

Also, a way to obfuscate email addresses and still have them show up as clickable HTML links:

<A href="http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/index.html">http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/index.html</A>;

Jeff Atwood on August 16, 2004 07:07 PM

Oh sweet irony.

Marty Thompson on August 12, 2005 09:34 AM

For some reason they spam this entry a lot.

Jeff Atwood on August 12, 2005 12:37 PM
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