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Thursday, May 31. 2007

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I quietly renabled comments two days ago, and the blog spammers have yet to resurface, so it's time to let the world know.

Posted by Richard Welty in General at 10:05 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Richard, depending on your blog software (package or custom written), you should take a peek at the Akismet libraries out there: http://akismet.com/development/ It's free to use and provides external spam decision making based on thousands of authors and other factors. It's really quite impressive... unfortunately there is nothing quite as good for trackback spam which my MSR blog has been getting hit with ~4000 pings per day.

#1 Brian (Homepage) on 2007-06-03 20:02 (Reply)

I've seen the recommendation before, and will look into it. The blog package, by the way, is serendipity, which seems pretty good and as an added bonus backends on PostgreSQL, my preferred database.

#1.1 Richard Welty on 2007-06-03 20:14 (Reply)

Congrats - Akismet should help considerably. I use Postgres for MotorsportReg.com and love it; I've been using it now for 5 years.

#1.1.1 Brian (Homepage) on 2007-06-12 01:08 (Reply)

Akismet support was just sitting there, so i grabbed a wordpress API key and turned it on. now to come up with something for the phpbb2 installation, that's already being hit since i straightened out its issues. sigh.

#1.2 Richard Welty on 2007-06-03 20:56 (Reply)

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