# March of the spam beasties
I've noticed a couple of Domino blogs I follow are being hammered by comment spam. In a way, it feels like watching an approaching hurricane. Assuming that the blogs are being sniffed out by spiders, then it's only a matter of time before the spiders follow a blogroll or comment link to my site.
I don't automagically convert URLs in my comments to links (part laziness, part policy), so I'm less valuable to spammers, but a spider's probably not bright enough to figure that out.
Some anti-spam solutions have been discussed, but I don't have the time to implement them, now. I expect that Blogsphere will have some spam protection soon enough (I think Dominoblog already has), and I'm just hoping that the spammer pigdogs remain ignorant of me a while longer, at least until I have enough time to research and implement a decent anti-spam mechanism.
(Let's hope those aren't famous last words...)
I don't automagically convert URLs in my comments to links (part laziness, part policy), so I'm less valuable to spammers, but a spider's probably not bright enough to figure that out.
Some anti-spam solutions have been discussed, but I don't have the time to implement them, now. I expect that Blogsphere will have some spam protection soon enough (I think Dominoblog already has), and I'm just hoping that the spammer pigdogs remain ignorant of me a while longer, at least until I have enough time to research and implement a decent anti-spam mechanism.
(Let's hope those aren't famous last words...)
File under: thee_blog, notes/domino : {2004.10.17 13:39}
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