Blog comment spam
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Reads familiar doesn't it. This is a relatively very 'decent' spam message in blog comments. Comment spam in weblogs has becme a major pain since its first appearance in late 2003. But the most affected were bloggers using Movable Type. This is because of some bugs in their software that were untill recently unknown.Another bug meant that even comments blocked by bloggers were causing a drag on the servers.
Respite for all folks using MT comes with the MT 3.14 release, announced on 20th. co-founder Mena Trott said on her blog,
The sort of bugs we discovered were significant, but we were extremely relieved to have found them — really because they were addressable and it wasn’t necessarily a case of the spammers winning.
Reads familiar doesn't it. This is a relatively very 'decent' spam message in blog comments. Comment spam in weblogs has becme a major pain since its first appearance in late 2003. But the most affected were bloggers using Movable Type. This is because of some bugs in their software that were untill recently unknown.Another bug meant that even comments blocked by bloggers were causing a drag on the servers.
Respite for all folks using MT comes with the MT 3.14 release, announced on 20th. co-founder Mena Trott said on her blog,
The sort of bugs we discovered were significant, but we were extremely relieved to have found them — really because they were addressable and it wasn’t necessarily a case of the spammers winning.
posted by LinuxLala at
9:03 PM
