[geeklog-devtalk] Re: [geeklog-devel] Found a spam comment hole.

[Matthew Cox]

> Message: 1

> From: "Tom Willett" <tomw at pigstye.net>

> To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:43:23 +0000

> Subject: [geeklog-devel] Found a spam comment hole.

> Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

>

> Kyle noticed something we can change to cut down on the number of spam

> comments in geeklog.  He noticed in his logs the following google search

> after people tried to post spam comments.

>

> "post a comment" anonymous "Allowed HTML tags"

>

> If you search for this you will find a series of links mostly to geeklog

> sites that point to the post a comment page all loaded and ready.  Simply

> changing the 'Post a comment' link on stories to a form button would

> eliminate this problem.


Interesting point.  You could also effectively prevent this with a
Disallow directive in your robots.txt file.  There's no real reason to
have search engines spider this page.

example robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /comment.php

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /comment.php*$

-Matthew
matthewcox.org