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[kompendi.com] Download Automattic's Akismet Anti Spam: One of the reasons we’re doing Akismet is we’ve built up a highly fault-tolerant infrastructure that can handle huge amounts of traffic and processing. However if something ever does go wrong your comments will simply go into the moderation queue.

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[Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] Wide Circles = Blog Comment Spam: I suppose ultimately that all these people will achieve is the celebrity of membership to the likes of the Akismet and Spam Karma filters. Let's hope so because they may not get away with it on blogs with good moderation but there are probably plenty that get through on non marketing/seo/tech blogs.

[taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog] Blog Spam, and a 'nofollow' Post-Mortem / taint.org: Justin ...: In response to Jim up above, I also have a homebrew blog, but someone at some point took the time to write an automated poster to it, much to my surprise. I noticed that the IP address that it was posted from was completely unrelated (often on the other side of the world) from the form site (it made 3 connections, one to get the form, one to post, and one to check to see if it posted).

[Snook.ca] How I built an effective blog comment spam blocker - Snook.ca: And I who thought of start to use a new email (Since the old one is quite outdated) ;) Well, the algorithm for catching spam is really intresting - it's quite different from getting the CAPTCHA's to work for you (like the 2+2 or the enter the characters on the image) but I am a bit thoughtful about the length of the links as well the intro text. I find it quite unfair to entirely ban "Interesting, sorry, cool" because I feel that soon spammer would skip the word and just to "I think..." - maybe -5 instead?

[LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News] Internet Crime Complaint Center Posts New "Vishing" Update | LISNews: with WordPress, either Akismet or Spam Karma 2 seems to block nearly all spam comments--and I decided not to show linkbacks when I started the blog. As for wikis, "open" wikis with any traffic at all are extremely vulnerable...but with double verification and daily monitoring, you can keep things under control.

[I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson] The WordPress Plugins I'm Using ”” See Screenshots of a Wide ...: It's only been a day or so, but I haven't gotten any spam since then. If you have spent more than a few hours on the internet then you've probably noticed a variety of page titles, ranging from bland and non-descriptive all the way to downright misleading.

[Jeremy Zawodny's blog] Nofollow No Good? (by Jeremy Zawodny): One prime way for you to turn around the loss of value caused by introduction of nofollow tags would be to find a way to give a site a portion of importance weighting for how many valuable outbound links they use. If the site is in a "good neighborhood", isn't using spammish/black-hat practices, and has healthy/nonsuspect linking schemes, give them a bit of a "reward" for the number and quality of outbound links.

[Humanized Weblog] Humanized > Weblog: Battling Spam and the Ring of Gyges: There is a huge cost in deciphering (OCRing) images, no matter how simple they are, and I’m guessing most spam bots would not bother with it, especially if it is only for comment systems. Where they would try would be on services such as Gmail, where they can automatically get accounts (with manual setup of a bot to specifically target that web service), and use that to spam people who would not normally receive such and thus pay attention.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Spam Karma, Targeting Spam