Comments on: The other type of comment spam http://www.redrag.net/2004/04/19/the-other-type-of-comment-spam/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joseph http://www.redrag.net/2004/04/19/the-other-type-of-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3250 Joseph Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/04/19/the-other-type-of-comment-spam/#comment-3250 If I recall correctly, MT obfuscates email addresses with HTML character entities. But since it's a standard, it's pretty trivial to code up a robot to recognise and decode those addresses. On my blog, people can choose to put in either a URL or an email address; if they choose the latter it is obfuscated by a custom javascript function. The downside is that email addresses are not easily accessible to people who have javascript disabled; but in my experience pretty much every visitor who has javascript disabled is a bot -- either a legitimate crawler or a mail harvester. But if you can't do that, I agree: protect your readers from themselves. :) If I recall correctly, MT obfuscates email addresses with HTML character entities. But since it’s a standard, it’s pretty trivial to code up a robot to recognise and decode those addresses.

On my blog, people can choose to put in either a URL or an email address; if they choose the latter it is obfuscated by a custom javascript function. The downside is that email addresses are not easily accessible to people who have javascript disabled; but in my experience pretty much every visitor who has javascript disabled is a bot — either a legitimate crawler or a mail harvester.

But if you can’t do that, I agree: protect your readers from themselves. :)

]]> By: Ryan Albrey http://www.redrag.net/2004/04/19/the-other-type-of-comment-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3251 Ryan Albrey Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/04/19/the-other-type-of-comment-spam/#comment-3251 Interesting. I am having a terrible time dealing with comment spams. Can i ban a certain ip range from leaving comments on my site? Where is the option to do this. Cheers Rob, Ryan "ExistAngst" Albrey PS. Reply to my email on candidacy in the coming election ok? Interesting. I am having a terrible time dealing with comment spams.

Can i ban a certain ip range from leaving comments on my site? Where is the option to do this.

Cheers Rob,
Ryan “ExistAngst” Albrey

PS. Reply to my email on candidacy in the coming election ok?

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