[Gllug] OT Dealing with blog spam

[Martyn Drake]

On 7 Jul 2006, at 10:16, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> I have noticed this url (snipped to ensure people don't click on it  
> and
> addmore spam) as a referrer on my blog - obviously I can block this  
> IP but
> what else can I do to stop these people polluting the internet?

You may want to consider a blogging product that allows you to  
moderate all comments, or incorporates a junk filter system that can  
deal with most of it for you, automatically.  Movable Type (http:// 
www.movabletype.org) 3.2 onwards does all this and much more.

Regards,

	Martyn
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