>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.
>
All,
Thanks for the replies and thoughts. As good as the ideas are, I'm not crazy about them. The quarantine idea is a good one for normal apps, but for hit and run blog commenting, I'm not sure that enough people would actually follow through.
The problem with blog spam is that most of the comments are manually posted. The spammers (and more and more legit companies) are posting their links in the comments, many these days masked as legitimate comments, in order to increase google rankings.
The reason I like BlackList is because it's an actual list of proven spammers, not a testing of conditions.
I'm going to think some more about this over the weekend, but I'm still quite interested in how I might speed up a hefty RegEx, even if it's not the optimal way to do this.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Jake
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