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02/07/2006: "Attack of the killer spam"
Soundtrack: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
As anyone who may have happened to glance at this site over the last couple of days might have noticed, I've had a bit of an attack of comment spam. I've had a couple of spam comments before, but this was anywhere between 1 and 15 comments on almost all my posts. Not good.
After I'd got over the feeling of being violated by lots of crawling little spambots, I went in search of a solution, and ended up here:
Small hack to fix comment spam
Simple idea, but it ought to work until the spammers get to grips with artificial intelligence. I've been back and deleted all the spam comments, so we'll see if it works. I'm going to apply the same fix to Sarah's blog in a minute - she hasn't had any yet, but it's more of a pain to have to do it afterwards.