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The Spam Problem

May 16, 2006 - -

Although I still get plenty of email spam, Thunderbird's adaptive spam filter is pretty good at weeding it out. GMail is pretty good too. A while back, I started getting comment spam on this site - you may have noticed the online casino and viagra/cialis comments that cropped up before I manually deleted them. Annoying as hell. I imagine sites like blogger and blogspot and software like Typepad and Wordpress have built-in filters for that type of comment spam, but as you may know, I coded this site myself. So I had to write my own filter. It seems to be working pretty well so far.

Just this past week, I also started getting spam on my comment form and had to install a copy of that same spam filter into it. Looks like the spambots have started submitting forms. Oh well.

Comments on The Spam Problem
 
Comment Wed, May 24 - 8:22 PM by Greg
This is officially the two thousandth comment made on my blog. Granted, that comment count includes tests and comment spam and other comments that were deleted, but two thousand is a big number. :)