Comments on: Spam Spam Spam http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/2009/05/18/spam-spam-spam video logs of my boat trips Sat, 01 May 2010 13:13:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nic http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/2009/05/18/spam-spam-spam/comment-page-1#comment-118 Nic Mon, 18 May 2009 17:21:02 +0000 http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/?p=248#comment-118 Wordpress has filters via plug-ins, akismet is a great one for multi-link spam, but not all. The latest trend is spam that could easily be mistaken as genuine such as <strong><em>"So glad you posted. I like reading blogs like this."</em></strong> which could easily be approved if I was going through lots of comments quickly, the fact that they usually have a URL from a marketing website or such and the fact that there's 3 identical comments from seemingly unrelated people from different sites are give aways. Wordpress has filters via plug-ins, akismet is a great one for multi-link spam, but not all.

The latest trend is spam that could easily be mistaken as genuine such as “So glad you posted. I like reading blogs like this.” which could easily be approved if I was going through lots of comments quickly, the fact that they usually have a URL from a marketing website or such and the fact that there’s 3 identical comments from seemingly unrelated people from different sites are give aways.

]]> By: Richard http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/2009/05/18/spam-spam-spam/comment-page-1#comment-117 Richard Mon, 18 May 2009 16:28:42 +0000 http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/?p=248#comment-117 Wordpress has fantastic spam filtering ..... Richard Wordpress has fantastic spam filtering …..

Richard

]]> By: Sue, Indigo Dream http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/2009/05/18/spam-spam-spam/comment-page-1#comment-116 Sue, Indigo Dream Mon, 18 May 2009 16:25:53 +0000 http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/?p=248#comment-116 In 11 months we've had just over 200 genuine comments but our blog spamfilter has trapped almost 1,700 items of spam! In 11 months we’ve had just over 200 genuine comments but our blog spamfilter has trapped almost 1,700 items of spam!

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