Nevertheless, this strikes me as a poor way to filter comments - as futile
as filtering spam email using boolean _expression_ matching. Aside from
needing constant updates, it won't filter the occasional abusive comment
from a legitimate sender you receive - since you're not using MT these may
be more common than the automated comments (I think I've had a couple, while
I've had no automated messages).
Here's the technique I use. Place new comments in a quarantine, send the
commenter a message. When the commenter replies to the message remove the
comment from quarantine and add their email address to a whitelist so their
comments don't get quarantined again. Works well, except some commenters
don't respond to the email.
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From: Jake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 1:43 p.m.
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Massive RegEx
All,
I have an idea to implement the Movable Type plugin Blacklist
(http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/) into my blogging app.
At its core, this plugin seems to be based on a pretty massive RegEx
that is run on all comments that are posted to the blog in order to help
to eliminate comment spamming.
(http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/blacklist.txt)
With such a massive RegEx, is there anyway to "cache" or ensure that
using this RegEx doesn't add tons of time to each comment submission?
It's late on a Thursday so my brain is slow to start. Anyone have any
thoughts on this?
Thanks!
Jake
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