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January 22, 2004
new moveable type - helps block comment spam
moveable type 2.661 has been released, and has some comment spam blocking/throttling measures in place.
Posted by lisa at January 22, 2004 04:39 PM | TrackBack
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A tip I read at Teresa Neilsen Hayden's blog: Apparently some comment spammers find blogs to target by searching on the phrase "post a comment name email address URL comments" I keep meaning to rephrase that stuff on the comment form of my journal.
Posted by: Sarah on January 22, 2004 10:36 PM
isn't the comment form cgi-generated?
Posted by: lisa on January 23, 2004 09:27 AM
oh-- it's only generated in the case of the pop-up window, i think. it does also appear on statically rendered pages.
which means that i now have that exact phrase in my blog, regardless of how i re-work the comment form :)
Posted by: lisa on January 23, 2004 09:28 AM
just delete my comment silly :)
Posted by: Sarah on January 23, 2004 11:06 AM
but that would be mean! :)
Posted by: lisa on January 23, 2004 11:17 AM
well then edit out the phrase & replace it with "the default text on MT comment forms." I promise I won't be offended; I'd do it myself if I could.
Posted by: Sarah on January 23, 2004 11:27 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.