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Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam

Posted Oct 30, 2003 3:22 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
Parent article: Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam

There's an easy solution for this problem: don't allow anonymous comments.

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Did you read the whole article?

Posted Oct 30, 2003 4:44 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

The article suggested exactly what you do. It also said that it won't
completely fix the problem but it at least increases the amount of work
that a spammer has to do.

Did you read the whole article?

Posted Oct 30, 2003 9:10 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

Furthermore, sometimes that is also considered too much of a hassle for the people that would like to submit comments.