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I’ve noticed something new with comments on this blog recently. It is a little bit sneaker than the normal approach, See, typically most spammers want to get their links on your blog, and they’ll certainly be sure to use the commenter’s URL field as target #1: The link there gets linked to their name. Free PR juice. I’ve been experimenting with the latest Anti-Spam WordPress plugin: Defensio. In general, it seems to work pretty well, but I have noticed some oddities. Honestly, it really does work well. At first it didn’t seem to be learning very quickly — even marked one of my own comments as spam! Ouch, that hurt a Last week I wrote about my battle getting Windows Live Writer Beta 2 to work with the (indispensable) Bad Behavior plugin. I'm pleased to say that I've found a simple little work-around. Maybe not a permanent solution but for now it will definitely suffice. Easy to do, too! There's a file included with Bad Behavior, Continue reading Windows Live Writer vs. Bad Behavior – Solved! In yesterday's post about the new Windows Live Writer Beta 2 I mentioned that I was getting some HTTP 403's when trying to publish. Tonight I decided to dig a little deeper into that. First, I disabled mod_security on my web server. No difference. Second, I disabled the Bad Behavior plugin that is a key  May 31st, 2007 |  Tags: Bad-Behavior, beta, mod-rewrite, security, spam, windows-live-writer |  9 comments |
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Another Tool in the Blog Anti-Spam Toolkit
Blog spam is a bummer, isn't it? So much of it is automated and shows up as Trackbacks or Pingbacks. Without using decent tools, a blogger can easily find themself spending way too much time chasing this stuff around. That causes folks to sometimes take extreme measures like forcing commenter registration
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