BurningbirdRecovered 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 […]
In some ways, I don’t think there’s ever been a US election in this country that has more far reaching implications than the one next week. If the Republicans gain control of the Senate next week, and maintain control of the House, they’ll have full control of the Senate, the House, and the Executive Branch […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Seems to be a technology day today. Phil caught a comment spammer who was trying to dump spam comments in all of his posts. This process would work within any weblog that sequentially numbers weblog posts (ie Movable Type). I’m going to try and tweak my mt-comments.cgi to stop POSTs from pages […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s now an associated RSS feed with weblogs.com. With this, aggregators could check the feed to know when to poll an individual weblog RSS feed. On the face, this sounds good: stop all that polling and all those hits to our RSS files. However, the problem with this approach is that […]