Comments on: Spam, spam, spam, spam…

By: walt

walt — Sat, 06 May 2006 20:50:29 +0000

Ruth Ellen, No, I don’t subscribe to my comments feed (it never occurred to me). Three bits of spam did make it through; I deleted them as soon as I saw them.

Otherwise…well, the Capcha plug-in didn’t even work, so I guess there will be some occasional strangeness.

By: Ruth Ellen

Ruth Ellen — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:16:25 +0000

Walt, do you check your comments rss feed through bloglines, by any chance? Since you changed the way you deal with spam, I’m getting some of the spam comments on the feed. They are pretty obviously spam, and when I click on the comment header to get to the original post (so I can see what the commentor is referring to – um, to what the commentor is referring) the spamment is gone. More weirdness.

By: Robin Hastings

Robin Hastings — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:14:47 +0000

I used a CAPTCHA plug-in for a while with my WordPress installation. A good source for those is: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools (look for the CAPTCHA heading, half-way down the page). I think I used Gudlyf’s AuthImage Plugin and it worked pretty well. I lost it when I upgraded, though, and haven’t gotten around to re-installing!

By: Steve Oberg

Steve Oberg — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:53:54 +0000

Walt,

I have been experiencing much the same thing with focus on all kinds of online gambling, refinancing, and sundry pills. I am heartily sick of this and in fact turned off email alerting. I will not go the route of requiring a login and will instead rely on periodic checking of the “Awaiting Moderation” webpage in WordPress. If that means I miss a timely comment here and there, oh well.

Steve
(who’s still not sure whether or not he should/could/will blog on work time while working in his new corporate environment)