Ones and Zeros: New Anti-Spam Measures...

New Anti-Spam Measures...

March 16, 2005	Whiterose Admin
So, I added MT-Keystrokes to our server last night. It's a cool plugin that stops comments that are entred without at least one keystroke in the text field or a click of the submit button. It brilliantly stops spam which comes from evil botnets. If you install it properly. Which I, unfortunately, did not. The key here is that I didn't realize that the templates had to be updated for the preview form as well as the comment forms. So basically, I denied comments only from careful, thoughtful posters. It should be all over now. I hope.
.:Posted by Michael on March 16, 2005 8:26 PM:.

Oh, good, maybe I should re-try posting that lost-in-the-ether comment I tried to make on the HoC blog yesterday. I was very confused where it went. I think this explains it.... :)

.:Posted by Karen ( total) on March 16, 2005 10:12 PM:.

Yep, saw that in the log. If it doesn't work, tell us.

.:Posted by Michael ( total) on March 17, 2005 12:24 AM:.

MT-Keystrokes: Fixed

Michael fixed the keystrokes problem and either fixed or uninstalled the problematic trackback plugin. Comments should work once the blogs......

.:Posted to Perverse Access Memory on Mar 17, 2005 5:05 PM:.