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  • From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Triangle Bloggers Conference
  • Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:24:26 -0500 (EST)

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Ian Meyer wrote:

On the topic of comment spam, check this out:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

Its pretty slick, and has been picked up all over the place, by other
search engines and tons of blogging tools and sites

rel=nofollow isn't going to do much to stop comment spam in the short term, if at all. It's a way to try to remove the incentive from comment spammers to spam, but will need to be widely adopted to have much of an effect.

For the moment, most good blogging software has some sort of antispam plugin. MovableType has the outstanding MT-Blacklist (http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/). A friend of mine has developed a SpamAssassin plugin for Wordpress (http://www.ioerror.us/wp-spamassassin/). Other packages probably have something similar.

A defensive approach like above is currently the best way to stop comment spam. Hopefully things like rel=nofollow will succeed over a longer term.

- --Wade
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