Tag: Spam
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Spam Solutions for phpBB and MovableType
I was pleased to discover two real spam solutions for phpBB and MovableType recently. phpBB is open source forum software. As you might expect it is written in the PHP programming language, which is installed by default on virtually every UNIX or Linux based web server. I run a message board using phpBB as well…
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Update from the Spam Wars
You would think that if I were getting five comments per hour that would be a sign that I was running a successful blog. Alas, of the 178 comments I averaged in the last 36 hours, only one of them was a legitimate comment. The rest were spam masquerading as comments. Fortunately, my Movable Type…
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Spammers must die
We all hate spammers. There is truly nothing good that you can say about them. They allegedly constitute a form of human life, but if this is true then it is only on the sub species level. Most people, no matter how evil, have some form of conscience underneath it all. At the very least…
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Spam: Absolutely Not!
Every time I think I have exorcised spam from my life, spammers become yet a little cleverer. The latest twist: I am getting 2-3 “spam” comments a day to this weblog. Sometimes the comments include links to porn sites or just your run of the mill scams, sometimes there is an innocuous message with a…
Occam's Razor 