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spam comments increasing

wow, spam has been steadily increasing and I worry that I’m losing comments to it. I’ve found about 5+ comments mis-filtered as spam in the past. Now, the volume of spam is too great to go looking through it to see if is mis-identified something. Hopefully thats not the case, would hate to lose your valuable insight.

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2 Responses to “spam comments increasing”



  • Chris Jones
    May 9th, 2007 16:47
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    Have you thought about using CAPTCHA to control spam comments? Here is a helpful blog article (blarticle?) about CAPTCHA effectiveness:
    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000712.html

    If that doesn’t work out for you, try this site:
    http://akismet.com/


  • Donna Jean
    May 10th, 2007 13:16
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    Thanks for the feedback. I have akismet and have been very happy with it. However, since it is catching a greater volume of spam, I can’t breeze through looking for mismarked comments. I’ll check out CAPTCHA, perhaps it can help hold back the floodgates while letting genuine feedback through.

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