Wednesday, September 21st, 2005, 7:39 am
Ending Comment Spam?
ORDPRESS is finally most determinded to put a stop to comment spam. The introduction of rel='nofollow'
never seemed to have done the trick. Yet, in then absence of this attribute, which was controversially introduced by Google (much like XML’d Site Maps), who knows what a jungle we would have lived in today.
The new spam prevention mechanism will be capable of serving all sites in principle (via API‘s), not only WordPress-powered sites. Meanwhile, I volunteered to be among the testers, but further details are not intended to be disclosed. I can only say that spam flagging is collaborative, much like Google Mail filtering (mentioned and recommended to the audience in my recent talk on security).
The spam protection plug-in presently has a test-bed on this domain. The following link will get things going, i.e. get spam to surge in:
http://www.schestowitz.com/Spam/
Prepare yourself to the end of comment spam!
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