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At work we build and host web based applications. As part of that, our applications generate email. We don’t get too fancy with sending email, we just shoot it out using Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) SMTP service. Traditionally we never really configured it, we just turned it loose. As the world becomes more and more 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 can’t log on to Yahoo! Messenger without getting spammed into oblivion. What makes it easier for spammers on Y! when compared to the other IM networks? Regardless, I don’t intend to log back in anytime soon. Rather cheesed me off. 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 I think I might have a somewhat painful addiction to plugins — whenever I see one that looks interesting and I just can’t resist giving it a try. Many come and many go, but here’s the current crop. Warning: I have a ton! Show Top Commentators — I added this one just today. Since I’m no |
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