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This morning before work I hacked up a few Pyblosxom plugins to do word blacklisting and a basic Turing test on comment posters. The blacklist currently only contains 'phentermine', 'poker', 'xanax', and 'viagra', but that should filter out 90% of the comment spam. For the rest, the Turing test asks the poster to add together two small numbers. The lazy bit is that these numbers are hard-coded at the moment, I'll add that later...

Hopefully I haven't broken something and if people pass these tests then comments actually work, if not the please email me.

I'll release the plugins later this week when I've added documentation and ensured they work.

NP: In Between Dreams, Jack Johnson

10:55 Monday, 30 Jan 2006 [#] [computers] (4 comments)

Posted by Simos at Mon Jan 30 13:47:31 2006:
WP-Hashcash has been good to me against spam. It simply requires JavaScript to work. I did not get a false negative yet.
The end-user does not notice any difference in functionality. It Just Works.. :)

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/05/11/wordpress-hashcash-20/
Posted by Nelson at Mon Jan 30 14:18:07 2006:
As Simos says, it's very easy to setup an antispam just with javascript, I did it in my guestbook just setting a form hidden field to true in the onclick event of the textbox where user has to write, bots cannot trigger onmouseover,onclick,etc...
Posted by Ross at Mon Jan 30 16:38:36 2006:
wordpress-hashcash would be great, if I used WordPress...
Posted by Kaz at Mon Jan 30 17:43:12 2006:
Ross

This might help you deal with you're Spam

;)

http://tinyurl.com/9rysq

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