February 12, 2013
by Neil T
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Last week, I received an email, to my personal address at this domain, apparently from a work colleague in another department – her name was in in the ‘From’ field. It just said ‘hi neil’, and then a link to … Continue reading
August 27, 2012
by Neil T
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Because I’ve been blogging for some time now, my contact details have been picked up by various PR agencies so I now get at least one, if not several emails every day with press releases. I wrote about it last … Continue reading
April 6, 2012
by Neil T
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This past week has seen a big increase in the amount of comment spam that has been submitted to this site. So far, all of it, bar one, has been caught by Akismet, however, normally a lot is caught by … Continue reading
November 8, 2011
by Neil T
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Many moons ago (well, just under 6 years ago actually), I used a script called Bad Behavior to prevent malicious bots from visiting your site. These are bots which scrape web sites looking for email addresses to send spam to, … Continue reading
March 14, 2011
by Neil T
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One of the issues with switching to Melody is that quite a few of the anti-spam plugins for Movable Type no longer work.
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September 30, 2010
by Neil T
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I’ve found that adding the words ‘handbag’ and ‘lohan’ to SpamLookup’s keyword filters improves its effectiveness against comment spam.
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June 19, 2010
by Neil T
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In the hope that it will reduce the current waves of comment spam that I’m receiving, I’ve turned off comments for all entries published prior to January 2009, plus a few published in 2009 that seem to be particular targets.
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September 20, 2008
by Neil T
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While cleaning out my spam folder on Gmail, I found these gems of email subjects.
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August 4, 2008
by Neil T
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We’re having some email problems at work, which I feel are worthy of a blog entry.
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July 24, 2008
by Neil T
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The latest trend in comment spam? Copying somebody else’s previously approved comment and working your website links into the text.
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