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January 03, 2007

Comment spam and MT

Movable Type does not deal with comment spam terribly well.

It has, in a twisted way, an unbeatable spam prevention system. Once spam gets beyond a certain threshold, it consumes all server resources, which prevents further abuse by spammers by bringing all server activity to a halt.

In truth, it is not the most elegant system.

mt-comments.cgi and trackback have been disabled to prevent such abuses in future.

Webkittyn has, rather brilliantly, suggested that all MT users move to the haloscan comment system, by signing up there, and modifying their individual entry archive templates as suggested by haloscan (instructions here).

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at January 3, 2007 04:26 PM

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