[clue-tech] Declining Linux support.

[Michael Fierro]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:19:57AM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> > Ditto on wordpress... but a warning to anyone setting it up:  Install a 
> > spam filtering plugin.  SpamKarma seems to work well.
> 
> Akismet: http://akismet.com/
> 
> With pre 2.x Wordpress I used to get about 20-100 spam posts a day, even
> with all logins disabled and commenting disabled.  Akismet caught them
> all and it was just point and click to clean up.

I run Wordpress on all my blogs (including http://apt-get.us). Comments kept
working their way through, even with Akismet. But a combination of Akismet
plus the SecureImage plugin seems to have completely stopped the flow of spam
comments. It adds the onerous step of users having to figure out the Captcha
(and I have at least one regular reader on my WeightJournal.com blog who
cannot do so). For the most part, that seems like a fair trade-off. 

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