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

[Simon Lord]

I've noticed that many Flash developers that have blogs have simply 
removed all the submission fields and replaced them with Flash editors. 
  Sample:

http://www.peldi.com/blog/archives/2005/01/pcc_recording_l.html#comments

... scroll to the submission area at the bottom.  Could be a solution 
we provide in a future version to allow users to either use the flash 
submission as an extra layer of protection against spam.


On Feb 9, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Dirk Haun 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
>
>
> -- 
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Sincerely,
Simon