Comments on: Comment Spam is a Thing of the Past http://chrisabraham.com/2006/05/23/comment-spam-is-a-thing-of-the-past/ Because the Medium is the Message Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:10:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Tiff http://chrisabraham.com/2006/05/23/comment-spam-is-a-thing-of-the-past/#comment-1664 Tiff Tue, 23 May 2006 15:39:03 +0000 http://chrisabraham.com/2006/05/23/comment-spam-is-a-thing-of-the-past/#comment-1664 I should clarify- MT was timing out on my personal blog, whose archives go back to January 2002 (after MT lost the late 2001 archives). MPOJ clearly hasn't been around that long. I should clarify- MT was timing out on my personal blog, whose archives go back to January 2002 (after MT lost the late 2001 archives). MPOJ clearly hasn’t been around that long.

]]> By: Tiff http://chrisabraham.com/2006/05/23/comment-spam-is-a-thing-of-the-past/#comment-1663 Tiff Tue, 23 May 2006 15:36:22 +0000 http://chrisabraham.com/2006/05/23/comment-spam-is-a-thing-of-the-past/#comment-1663 Did you actually read the part of my comment when I said that I have a good comment spam solution, which is why I have open comments? I use Wordpress 2, but I'm uninterested in having my blog "phone home" to Akismet every time someone comments, so I use Elliot Back's HashCash, which rocks and is nearly 100% accurate. But the test Back employs isn't suitable for trackbacks, and so I spend an unreasonable amount of time managing trackback spam on all my assorted blogs, which is why I've given up open trackbacks. Trackback was always spam waiting to happen- an automated way to get your link on my blog without my assent or approval. So I track my Technorati cosmoses (cosmii?) and referrer logs and try to wade through the splogs on THOSE to see who's linking to me. And don't even talk to me about MT- I gave up that thing when my archives got so long that MT couldn't rebuild them without timing out halfway through (you'd think it could stand up to more than three years of archives...). I went dynamic with WP and never looked back. Did you actually read the part of my comment when I said that I have a good comment spam solution, which is why I have open comments?

I use Wordpress 2, but I’m uninterested in having my blog “phone home” to Akismet every time someone comments, so I use Elliot Back’s HashCash, which rocks and is nearly 100% accurate. But the test Back employs isn’t suitable for trackbacks, and so I spend an unreasonable amount of time managing trackback spam on all my assorted blogs, which is why I’ve given up open trackbacks. Trackback was always spam waiting to happen- an automated way to get your link on my blog without my assent or approval. So I track my Technorati cosmoses (cosmii?) and referrer logs and try to wade through the splogs on THOSE to see who’s linking to me.

And don’t even talk to me about MT- I gave up that thing when my archives got so long that MT couldn’t rebuild them without timing out halfway through (you’d think it could stand up to more than three years of archives…). I went dynamic with WP and never looked back.

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