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May 25, 2004
The death of communication?
Over the past few weeks, I have seen email and weblog-comment spam rise to levels that are beginning to make the underlying communication forms unusable. Soon, I will just have to turn off the comments here.
It is time to realize that we can't beat spam - either in it's email, wiki-defacing or weblog-comment form. The sooner we realize this and start thinking about how we can use other forms of communication more effectively the better. At the moment we are just wasting a terrible amount of resources by constantly maintaining email whitelists or lists of IP numbers we want to block. I could spend hours weeding out the spam comments from this weblog (even though I'm using MT-Blacklist).
This is a war we just can't win.
Posted by Matthew at May 25, 2004 09:12 PM
Comments
I get 1 maybe 2 spam a week in my inbox.
Posted by: Steve Mallett at May 25, 2004 09:44 PM
It's just a matter of putting an image with a foggy text and restrict posts to ones that read and fill an input box with the text.
Posted by: hammett at May 25, 2004 10:22 PM
Maybe it helps not to link directly to mt-comments.cgi (with all the GET parameters). I think that's what spammers are googling for when searching for victims. My 'comments' link to the individual archive instead of the comments popup, and I maybe get 1 or 2 spams per week. Of course, my content is pretty boring as well; that may make a difference, too.
Posted by: Scott at May 25, 2004 11:56 PM