LiveJournal, a combination of blog (web log) and web forum, has recently
gotten spammers, who leave comments saying "Take a look at this link". The
LiveJournal admins have anticipated this, and just recently put into play
some anti-spam techniques:
* Anonymous posters are only allowed a small number of posts per time unit per
IP address before they have to prove that they're human through captchas
(see http://www.captcha.net/). Registered accounts are allowed a higher
rate of posting before they have to prove their human.
* When journal owners delete a comment from their journal, they now have the
option to mark the comment as spam. Comments so marked can be reviewed by
humans, who will delete the posting account if it really was spam.
* If someone posts a burst of comments to many different journals, as opposed
to the same journal (where a burst of comments would just be someone
participating in a discussion), this will be brought to the attention of
humans, who can determine if it's spam, and delete the responsible accounts
of it is spam.
See
* http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_biz/219024.html
* http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_biz/219332.html
--
Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on
fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Advanced SPAM filtering software: http://spamassassin.org
gotten spammers, who leave comments saying "Take a look at this link". The
LiveJournal admins have anticipated this, and just recently put into play
some anti-spam techniques:
* Anonymous posters are only allowed a small number of posts per time unit per
IP address before they have to prove that they're human through captchas
(see http://www.captcha.net/). Registered accounts are allowed a higher
rate of posting before they have to prove their human.
* When journal owners delete a comment from their journal, they now have the
option to mark the comment as spam. Comments so marked can be reviewed by
humans, who will delete the posting account if it really was spam.
* If someone posts a burst of comments to many different journals, as opposed
to the same journal (where a burst of comments would just be someone
participating in a discussion), this will be brought to the attention of
humans, who can determine if it's spam, and delete the responsible accounts
of it is spam.
See
* http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_biz/219024.html
* http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_biz/219332.html
--
Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on
fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Advanced SPAM filtering software: http://spamassassin.org