BurningbirdOriginally published at O’Reilly onlamp.com, recovered from the Wayback Machine. It used to be that Unix was for the geeks, while the rest of the world used less command-intensive, and usually less powerful, operating systems such as Windows or the Mac OS. Even with the advent of native GUIs such as the X Window system, […]
The discussion continues on comment spamming and a couple of people have taken my initial quick fix and expanded on it nicely. Jennifer from Scripty Goddess has taken to solution into the MT tmpl files, adding the hidden field to processing.tmpl. Brad Choate came up with a fairly complex solution that, while not keeping a determined spammer out, would force the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Christine staged a Blog Debate, during which Ciscley commented about guys being reluctant to move to Moveable Type because it’s popular. She wrote: I think (I *know* in my personal blogging circle and I’m generalizing from there) that most of the people that are uncomfortable with the popularity of MT are guys. It’s like […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Both Sam Ruby and Phil Ringnalda had good advice — don’t spend a lot of time on developing a solution to fixing the comment spam problem. Whatever I can do within the form, it’s a relatively simple matter for a spammer to read any form value and duplicate it in his spam blast. I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In regards to the comment spam problem mentioned earlier, one idea kicked around was checking the http_referer to make sure that the comment post came from the same server as the form. We talked about the possibility of empty http_referers — not all browsers send a referrer and proxy servers […]