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October 16, 2005
Review of Movable Type & Its New Spam Filters
I am a big fan of Movable Type. I've been using their blog technology for over a year and have no complaints at all ... except ... the spam filtering has been terrible. Lots of web owners use automated software that submits their junk to blogs. Yes, it's junk because they aren't really comments. They're only for the purpose of getting links. (There's always someone who abuses a good thing! Like blogs.)
Every day I got hundreds of spam links from poker sites, porn sites, cialis & viagra sites - in other words, the dregs of the Net. The only way to stop it was to refuse all comments, which I didn't really want to do.
Not only did it take time to remove all this garbage, it also ate up our server space.
But all that is in the past, I'm happy to report. In its recent update, Movable Type has so improved its anti-spam filter that the tidal wave has died down to a meager trickle. Some days I get none, and as my filters improve I believe/hope it will stop altogether.
Kudos, Movable Type!
Posted by SydneyJohnston at October 16, 2005 10:07 AM
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