RE: [bloggerDev] Re: Blog Comment Spam - Bill Lazar - com.googlegroups.bloggerdev

6 messages in com.googlegroups.bloggerdevRE: [bloggerDev] Re: Blog Comment Spam

From	Sent On	Attachments
Patrick McFarland	31 Jul 2005 14:43
Michael P. Wilson	31 Jul 2005 15:42
Bill Lazar	31 Jul 2005 16:44
Patrick McFarland	31 Jul 2005 17:12
Eric Case	31 Jul 2005 17:28
Kuna...@gmail.com	01 Aug 2005 09:23

Subject:	RE: [bloggerDev] Re: Blog Comment Spam
From:	Bill Lazar (b....@billsaysthis.com)
Date:	07/31/2005 04:44:10 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.bloggerdev

As Michael said. However, I recommend looking at two WordPress plugins, BadBehavior [1] and Referrer Bouncer[2].

[1] http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ [2] http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/word-press-1-5-plugin-referer-bou ncer/

-----Original Message----- From: blog...@googlegroups.com [mailto:blog...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael P. Wilson Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 3:43 PM To: blog...@googlegroups.com Subject: [bloggerDev] Re: Blog Comment Spam

The winning question is "how can software tell the difference between spam and legitimate content?"

There are all kinds of schemes, from blacklists and whitelists, to authentication mechanisms to bayesian filtering, etc.

Ain't nuthin' perfect.

I'm not sure what's specifically available for blogger though.

- "When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win." - Ed Macauley

http://www.mpwilson.com/uccu/

On Jul 31, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Patrick McFarland wrote:

I was wondering, from a development standpoint, how hard is it to block comment spam? Because I just got my first comment spam... that either says my blog is finally popular, or Blogger's spam blocker failed me.