November 15, 2003

Spam commenting on blogs...

I've been blessed so far with a manageable amount of spam in my e-mail, but the last few weeks I've been appalled to discover that spam extends into commenting on blogs. I'm not sure why I didn't expect this, but I have been surprised and disappointed at the ads for Viagra and other nuisances that are being sent as comments to this weblog. I just discovered that there is a shareware spam-filter for Moveable Type weblogs, and I think I'm going to try and install it. It's called MT-Blacklist, and David Weinberger helped me find it (he notes his thanks to Jay Allen for writing it).

Posted by hessma at November 15, 2003 09:53 AM
Comments

In addition to spam comments, I now have spam in my referral logs with fake blogs. It's terrible that I now have to question the authenticity of people visiting my site.

Posted by: Jason at November 18, 2003 10:49 AM

Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe

Posted by: WaltDe at August 31, 2006 07:26 PM