Dave, the author of Spam Karma 2 (SK2), has written an interesting essay on his take on comment spam entitled The State of Spam [Karma]. It’s a good read if you’re into this sort of thing. SK2 was one of the first really advanced scripts put together to combat spam, and you can see on [...]
Alex has written a PHP5 class for interacting with the Akismet API, and it looks really clean. Check out his site for some code samples and a download.
Also there is a new Net::Akismet class in the CPAN Perl repository.
I promise we won’t blog every time we block a million spam, but it is interesting to note it took us about two months to block the first million spam, and it took us about 20 days to double that.
So the latest in comment spam is the phrase “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” which apparently some sort of new SEO contest. Apparently the contest has no rules against black hat techniques, so lots of people have decided to try and spam their way to the top. I’m only blogging about this because a few of these comments [...]
