On 27 Aug 2008, at 15:37, tedd wrote:
At 3:37 PM +0100 8/26/08, Stut wrote:
In my experience most spam can be blocked by case-insensitively
checking for "[url" and "<a". There ain't many spam comments out
there that don't include URLs.
-Stut
Well... that would block me many times from providing comment for I
often not only comment but back my point up with a link to a demo.
Obviously if you want to accept links from users then this won't work
for you, but for blocking comments from spam bots that hit every form
they can find I've found nothing better than refusing comments with
links.
A half-way-house would be to refuse anything with more than n links
where n is reasonable for the content you're expecting. Most spam
comments try to include a large number in each posting.
-Stut
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