There was some breathing space, for a while, after we took some simple anti-spam measures. But now we've been hit again in the last few days. Which is silly, actually, because we have "nofollow" installed, so the comment spam isn't even indexed by Google or other search engines, which is the whole reason they spam Ish to begin with.
So I've changed the script name yet again, which means a complete rebuild. I have the feeling I'll need to do this periodically. Also, I've taken out the excerpt of the comment from the sidebar so we don't have to look at all that nastiness. I'd like to regex the commenter's name to just their initials, but I haven't figured out the code for that yet.
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Kevin Drum (of Washington Monthly, formerly CalPundit) recently remarked that he was getting spam in his *trackbacks.*
So far I haven't been hit with any, and I suspect that it's because haloscan's links are all done through a java script. My guess is it either inhibits spam bots from opening the form, or that the spam bots are programmed to consider them useless. Because people are putting their email addresses in there, potentially harvested by humans.
Comment #2 :: link :: February 3, 2005 04:21 PM
