After being inspired by Sybil Law, I checked my spam folder on Google Mail. It’s fascinating. Top of the list was an email from Katrina Madelyn offering me drugs from a Canadian pharmacy, including Viagra and others I had never head of like Flomax and Rockit247. ViagraOralJelly sounds interesting. Nestor Sheppard, whose email address is [...]
Using reCAPTCHA to combat comment spam
I liked Mollom because it stopped spam and didn’t leave anything for me to moderate. Unfortunately, when it triggered a captcha for suspicious posts those people were having trouble. I’m now using reCAPTCHA. I’ve seen it on a lot of sites and didn’t realise until today there was a WordPress plugin. I recall checking it [...]
Comments problem
I’ve been using Mollom to block spam for a week or so now, and found it effective at reducing the amount of time I spent checking comments in moderation. In fact, I didn’t have to worry about that at all. However, I had a report from someone whose email address the system considered suspicious (something [...]
Mollom spam killer
At various times over the past few years I’ve used Akismet and Defensio to block comment spam. I’m now trying Mollom and I’m pleased with the early results. The problem with Akismet and Defensio is they sometimes block genuine comments. Manual checking is the only way to find out. On days when my sites are [...]
WordPress spam prevention
Everyone hates spam, except I suppose the spammers themselves. I’ve had trouble with spam for years but I finally seem to be winning the battle. My first layer of protection on this WordPress site is Akismet. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to the site it is submitted to the Akismet web service [...]
