Re: comments enhancements

will guaraldi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Bill Mill wrote:
>
> have you had problems with comment spam? So far, I've had none, and 
> attributed it simply to using a different comment system than the big 
> boys use.

Yes.  I have a bunch of entries in my blog about it.  At one point I was 
averaging 2 an hour.  It's pretty trivial for someone with a minimal 
knowledge of HTTP and some tools to write a bot to spam someone's comments 
form.  It's a 2 minute job at most and waters down to posting a comment 
with the HTTPLiveHeaders plugin for Firefox recording the HTTP post.  You 
take the post data, replace some minor variables, and voila!

Given that, I wouldn't attribute your lack of comment spam to using a 
different system.  You're probably just not on their radar yet.

/will


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