What does your front line of spam protection look like? Still spending more than 5 minutes a day weeding through it? I’m not… Over the past month or so I’ve been posting about spam prevention and automated methods for putting anti-spam techniques in place. In them I pass on my ideas, […]
How Akismet And Defensio Create Another Line Of Spam Defense On April 27th, 2008 | By Rob
All the data validation and CAPTCHA’s in the world sometimes wont save you. If its too much work for you to manage your own filtered IP’s, and emails that have spammed your site in the past, then you might want to seek yet another automated line of protection: Defensio or Akismet. […]
Automated Anonymous Spam Filtering and Validation On April 23rd, 2008 | By Rob
Filtering spam and putting items in a queue to check on or authorize later is one way to deal with spam. However there is another way to deal with data entries like that and it is a little more automated.
Spammers tend to use fake email addresses which is what this tactic plays […]