I just checked recent comments and found two instances of spam in comments to recent posts, which I deleted, one of them of infamous Nigerian repute.
Is anyone else seeing this in their own blogs?
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at July 06, 2003 11:24 AM>>Is anyone else seeing this in their own blogs?
Ohhhh yeah.
Here's an example.
http://www.xmlrpc.com/stats/referers
Scroll down a bit.
Posted by: Dave Winer at July 6, 2003 11:54 AM
yes, use MT's IP blocking liberally it does a pretty good job.
Posted by: William Blaze at July 8, 2003 10:21 AM
I've gotten this on LiveJournal and in my old MT weblog.
In each case, URLs and a few unrelated terms were included. I believe they weren't so much targeting me as trying to steal a little Google juice.
Posted by: Brian McGroarty at July 10, 2003 09:54 AM
Yes, it's a growing problem. Seems to be indiscriminate, much like emailed spam. Various folks have been looking at ways of allowing authenticated commenting (in Movable Type and similar systems) without making things too exlusionary. Eg:
http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/01/fun_with_foaf.shtml
http://bitsko.slc.ut.us/blog/2003/06/24/foaf-check
http://rdfweb.org/topic/FoafIdentityAssurance
...but run into predictable issues re mass market usability of public key crypto. (Maybe something like Chandler or Mozilla's Enigmail extension could offer some hope of progress there?).
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1172.html suggests moving to email-based commenting instead...
Posted by: Dan Brickley at August 5, 2003 04:01 PM