{"id":317,"date":"2006-08-17T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/anti-spam-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T18:09:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T01:09:33","slug":"anti-spam-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/anti-spam-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Spam Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just upgraded my principle blog anti-spam measure, WP-HashCash<\/a>, to the latest version. I know that some readers have been blocked by this when trying to comment. In fact, I was even blocked recently when I tried to post a comment. Please let me know if WP-HashCash gives you any trouble.<\/p>\n

I think that WP-HashCash uses a great idea to stop spambots by issuing a programmatic challenge to the client before accepting a client’s comment. This sort of thing has been proposed as a solution for email spam but would not be tractable without modifying the fundamental email protocols. I have never seen this blog nailed by spambots so I can only assume that the plugin is doing its job, which I realize may not be very sound reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just upgraded my principle blog anti-spam measure, WP-HashCash, to the latest version. I know that some readers have been blocked by this when trying to comment. In fact, I was even blocked recently when I tried to post a comment. Please let me know if WP-HashCash gives you any trouble. I think that WP-HashCash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t