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New Anti-Spam Feature
About five days after I decided to have non-member comments be moderated, I've changed my mind. From now on there will be no moderation (it was a pain for me to do, plus it disrupted the spontaneity of comments). Instead, I've put in place a high-tech anti-spam feature in which people who submit comments have to first type in a word displayed in a box. Members won't have to do this. Hopefully the spammers won't be willing to do this. If they do it'll be a complete waste of their time since I'll promptly delete their spam.
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Categories: Miscellaneous Posted by Alex on Thu Nov 11, 2004 |
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very smart thing to do. but it's sad that spam became such a bother in the first place.
Posted by Alex in ny on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 01:38 AM
Yay! Now all I have to do is have something worth posting. 
Posted by Reinstag in My Chair on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 01:49 AM
Incidentally, the Grauniad recently claimed that spam was name for the Monty Python 'Spam' sketch. True or myth?
Posted by paul in prague on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 06:02 AM
Please buy some of my viagra. Thank you and keep up the good work on your //@museum@// website.
Mike D
Posted by Mike Ditka in Chicago on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 11:15 AM
Mike D
"Grauniad recently claimed that spam was name for the Monty Python 'Spam' sketch. True or myth?"
It looks like there is some truth to this. Several sites refer to the Monty Python orgin.
Here are a couple of interesting pages on spam and the origins of the name:
http://www.hkentcraig.com/HowInternetSpamGotItsName.html (This one even gives the transcript of the skit in question.)
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
Posted by Myst on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 06:47 PM
It looks like there is some truth to this. Several sites refer to the Monty Python orgin.
Here are a couple of interesting pages on spam and the origins of the name:
http://www.hkentcraig.com/HowInternetSpamGotItsName.html (This one even gives the transcript of the skit in question.)
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
Good idea, that must've been a pain to approve/disapprove every single non-member comment. >_<''
Posted by Mewtaila on Sat Nov 13, 2004 at 04:33 AM
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