[extropy-chat] Blog spam

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> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of Brian Atkins

> Since the blogspam is mostly automated, moving to a different
> host will not
> solve it. All blogs suffer from this. Some solutions are:
>
> 1. Eliminate comments permanently.
>
> 2. Moderate all comments. Can be partially automated by only requiring
> moderation of comments that have links in them.
>
> 3. Require a CAPTCHA in combination with user login for comments.
> Will not
> eliminate the few human spammers out there.
>
> 4. Some newer blog software is incorporating Bayesian comment filtering.

Movable Type is well up to the spam challenge. All the necessaries are now
included in the standard version 3.2; the cost of getting MT set up on a
hosted service is somewhat less than the cost of suffering spam, I think
you'll find.

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