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CDB Entry: BlogSpam: The Troops Are Getting Tired

Wed, 19 May 2004 16:17:31 -0700

Reports from the trenches on the fight against comment spam.... CDB has been relatively quiet since masquerading the URLs for comment scripts. However, two other blogs on our server, one for a college Center for Teaching and Learning and the...

comment by: Will R.

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:14:03 -0700

Ok...here it is...the kiss of death...but I haven't had any of this with Manila. This is a war I don't think you're going to win, Alan.

comment by: Ben Brophy

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:36:57 -0700

I'm feeling bad. I made a few of the changes suggested in a piece you linked to, and I haven't had a single blog spam since. I am not sure why. Could it be because no one reads my blog? Or is it that I don't post so often, some I'm not listed in the blog aggregators most of the time? Not that I'm eager to get more, but hey, what's wrong with my blog?

comment by: Alan Levine

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:44:12 -0700

Will, I *know* it is a losing war. But I am learning things in the battle.

Ben,
My blog has been quiet, the issues I am fighting are in the set of 5 or 6 other blogs I host that are still riding the default MT templates. Besides the spam problem, there are all kinds of issues I have with :out of the box, Georgia Blue" MT set up (Chopped in the head excerpts in RSS feeds, the "archive" approach of just munging together all posts in a category, etc)