Friday, September 30, 2005


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5 comments:

Christopher Blosser said...

Invasion of the spammers.

Whatever your misgivings about Bush's handling of Iraq, pre-emptive action would be more than justified here. From now on, modify your blog to permit registered Blogger users only. While it won't completely stop the riff-raff, it may help to quell obnoxious infestations such as these.

Christopher Blosser said...

Just to clarify my earlier post, there were 9 comments here last night -- 8 of which were spam. (Thanks for clearing those out). Given that Blogger is owned/operated by Google, it's becoming a chief target for spammers to target their commenting system as it builds link-recognition.

Anonymous said...

This doesn't happen with Haloscan comboxes, does it?

Christopher Blosser said...

Sometimes, but haloscan provides additional bulwark against spammers with banning of IP addresses (static or ranges) -- hence it provides an additional bulwark against repeat offenders.

Fr. D.L. Jones said...

Per Christopher suggestion, I added some protection against spammers, i.e. Word Verification. This should stop the automatic spam. The question is should I put only registered Blogger.com users? I held off b/c sometimes good people are not registered (even though it's free and rather easy) and will add comments as Anonymous, but with their name. But I also seem to a problem with a few folks who refuse to show their face and use Anonymous to hind behind. Their comments humor me though, but are an irritant as well.