Wednesday, October 29. 2003
BlogSpam. Yeccch.
A new problem with spammers is appearing - BlogSpam.
Spammers are looking for comments forms on blogs and putting their dreck into the comments. I imagine the reason is to increase search engine visibility, rather than actually thinking people will use the links, since blog readers tend to be a little more sophisticated.
Example? One that has mostly failed because the forms won't allow HTML is at MozDev.org. I think they're still playing with their software, because some of the posts seem to pretend they actually care.
Hints...change the links that point to comment forms to something non-standard. Blog Developers, put some kind of security on the postings - an image that has to be copied, a'la hotmail email account signup, etc.
Example? One that has mostly failed because the forms won't allow HTML is at MozDev.org. I think they're still playing with their software, because some of the posts seem to pretend they actually care.
Hints...change the links that point to comment forms to something non-standard. Blog Developers, put some kind of security on the postings - an image that has to be copied, a'la hotmail email account signup, etc.
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