[geeklog-devel] Spam, spam, bacon, eggs, and spam

[Justin Carlson]

Also, as posted elsewhere,  is this live now
?
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html



On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0600, Justin Carlson
<justin.carlson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you could add a bit of code to the SpamX plugin:
> 
> http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:14:59 +0100, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:
> > Our special "friend" continues to flood geeklog.info with trackback spam.
> > A few of them went through since he now also seems to start using HTML
> > entities to obfuscate his posts:
> >
> > >&#111;nl&#105;n&#101; p&#111;k&#101;r</a> von &
> > >#111;nl&#105;n&#101; p&#111;k&#101;r<br>
> > >Please visit some information in the field of online
> > >poker poker party poker
> >
> > Tom, would you consider this a feature request? ;-)
> >
> > No forum spam (at all) on geeklog.info, btw. Maybe because the site's in
> > German?
> >
> > I made a small modification to the forum submission forms on geeklog.net
> > to include a random number in a hidden field. This was just for testing
> > since I wanted to find out if he actually parses the forms or not. The
> > random number would have shown up in the SpamX notification emails if he
> > did, but it didn't.
> >
> > There's a plugin for Wordpress that does this: It includes a randomly
> > named field with a random value into the submission form and if that
> > field and value are not included in the POST data, the post is discarded
> > right away.
> >
> > They actually add the field with JavaScript to make it even more
> > difficult. But then I wouldn't be able to post using Lynx, so maybe
> > that's too extreme a measure (yet) ;-)
> >
> > Anyway, the war is on and the enemy isn't sleeping ...
> >
> > bye, Dirk
> >
> > --
> > http://www.haun-online.de/
> > http://www.haun.info/
> >
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