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On comment spam

On comment spam

Posted Jul 29, 2010 11:57 UTC (Thu) by hjb (subscriber, #25523)
Parent article: On comment spam

A captcha is quite useful, it can reduce the spam to a very low number. However it is not always necessary, only if the content is classified as "possible spam". This can be easily checked with a database table containing typical spam keywords. We implemented this on www.pro-linux.de.


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