No. Blog/Website comment spam is sufficiently different from email
spam that the problem is just being analyzed and solved.
The Textpattern community has done well with their system, ditto for
WordPress. And many use the annoying "what is the number in this
image" solution.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
On Oct 29, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Louis Macovsky, Dynamic BioSystems wrote:
> Do you send spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/07/newspamemail.htm
>
> Lou
>
>
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> From: "Owen Densmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
> <friam@redfish.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Comment Spam!
>
>
>> Yup, captcha was a possible plugin choice for my Textpattern system.
>> But I wanted to avoid it if possible, I find them really annoying.
>>
>> So I tried two alternative plugins:
>> - A simple link counter: more than 2 links require moderation, more
>> than 5 are tossed. This one also has a small list of obvious words
>> (viagra, porn, ...) to check for as well.
>> - A known spam-bot list which uses the current hot bot ip addresses
>> to toss spam.
>>
>> Between the two of these, I looked at my logs this morning and they
>> foiled *200* attempts with none getting through! So that looks
>> promising.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>> Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
>>
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:53 PM, James Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
>>> http://www.captcha.net/
>>>
>>> CAPTCHA(TM)s (the distorted word thingys "Completely Automated
>>> Public
>>> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") and other cognitive
>>> puzzles (pick the picture of a kitten from the 9 pictures to
>>> prove you
>>> are not a spambot) seem to be de riguer... though there are
>>> techniques for defeating them on the large scale.
>>>
>>> For a small site, just implementing a *bad* captcha can be enough to
>>> prevent minor/lazy spambots from visiting.
>>>
>>> Another techniques I've seen include the use of awful click-with-
>>> mouse
>>> javascript keypad where the numbers move around, and the numbers are
>>> graphics, but the code doesn't say which key is which number (its
>>> obfuscated), so a computer reading the webpage can't tell which
>>> buttons to press. Its super-duper annoying.
>>>
>>> ~~James
>>>
>>> On 10/27/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Wow! I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces!
>>>>
>>>> I had heard about it but had not personally experienced it. Its
>>>> why
>>>> you get those weird and annoying "tell me what this distorted image
>>>> says" tickets before being able to enter your comment for forums or
>>>> blogs.
>>>>
>>>> So I've instituted several suggestions on this page:
>>>> http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Combat_Comment_Spam
>>>> .. but it seems a difficult problem to solve, other than simply
>>>> moderating every comment.
>>>>
>>>> Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites? Any
>>>> interesting solutions?
>>>>
>>>> -- Owen
>>>>
>>>> Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
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