This is ultimately one of those questons in the vein of “what’s the best kind of gas mask,” but the comment spam’s been coming fast and thick of late and Jay Allen’s centralized blacklist doesn’t seem to be getting updates: so, where do you get your MT-blacklist?
Posted by mgk at October 25, 2004 08:53 AMThe MT-Blacklist for MT 3.x is autoupdated, which is very convenient. And it auto-reports your additions back to the clearinghouse to expedite centralized upating, which is also nice.
Posted by: Liz at October 25, 2004 04:56 PM | Link to CommentAs soon as I can find time, I'm updating wordherders to 3.0... I'm just sick of the daily dose of spam. I think I've deleted over 500 bits in the past couple of days (not all just on my blog).
The current Herd list is here, but clearly we're not getting everything:
http://wordherders.net/blacklist.txt
Kathleen at Planned Obsolescence is reporting similar frustrations with daily spam.
BTW
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has launched an Anti-Spam Toolkit and has invited Public Contributions
http://www.oecd.org/documentprint/0,2744,en_2649_201185_33732274_1_1_1_1,00.html
Rabbit fences are going up in response to spam: Kathleen at Planned Obsolescence has installed antispam features
http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/a_vermont_of_the_mind
a forthcoming registration option will help those who use text only browsers such as Lynx who cannot input the text contained in an image.
Liz Lawley at Mamamusings has for some time implemented Typepad and a holding tank for comments generated by users who have not Typepad installed.
I wonder if the spam explosion doesn't point to a service gap that could be filled by the rise of a secretorial corps of scrubbers/monitors/moderators. Could there also be a cadre of trackers that signal digital rot, faulty markup, misspellings that affect searches? Interesting exercise to set a class for about an hour :)
Posted by: Francois Lachance at October 30, 2004 11:42 PM | Link to Comment