I've been having a real problem with spam for this blog recently. Not only do I have to delete comments almost every other day, but I've accidentally deleted some legitimate comments.
I was previously protecting my site with something that ensured they couldn't simply post a comment to my cgi comment script. Now, I believe the technique that is being used is to read the comment page and do a post from there. This more closely matches what a real person would do.
As a quick hack, I put in a quick captcha so that I can filter the spammers out. Please let me know if this is causing any problems. The problem you are most likely to experience is an "improper access error". Report such things to me via email, please. If you don't know my email, just mail to webmaster of this domain, and it will get to me.
Posted by ahyatt at May 13, 2006 10:35 PM