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November 07, 2005

Life : The Risks of blogging

Well for anyone who tuned into this blog last night (Pacific Standard Time), you will have discovered that my blog was attacked by a comment 'bot (the blog equivalent of Email "spam"). Over the last couple of month I have had a few stray advertisements posted as comments; and deleted them as soon as I saw them (while starting to research the state of the art in protection against such). Last night I had 20 comments added to the blog which were essentially links to other sites. I cleaned them up quickly; but the people who run such services tend not to just "go away", so I will have to implement some of the techniques I have researched. I hope to have the first wave of changes implemented sometime this week. These are changes which will not affect legitimate commenters at all. If that doesn't work, I have a second wave of changes I can implement; but unfortunately they will make it slightly harder for legitimate people to post. I hope it doesn’t come to that.

The one think I would ask my readers is if you see any such comments; please do not click-through any such link. It only encourages them

Posted by Steven at November 7, 2005 09:53 AM