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October 31, 2008 · By Gert Franz · 7 Comments

Lately the blog site is getting more and more spam comments. This is why I will update to the latest BlogCFC by Raymond Camden and enable the moderation of comments. So please do not get upset if a comment you posted isn't visible instantly. This is the price we have to pay if our blog should remain spam free. Every day we had to delete around 30 spam comments. The subscribers to the related blog entry I suppose received these spam mails as well. This is why we want to moderate comments in the future. Thanks for your understanding.
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  • 1 Rick Mason // Oct 31, 2008 at 2:04 PM

    Gert,

    Check into CF Form Protect, used it at work with much success.

    http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/

  • 2 Gert Franz // Oct 31, 2008 at 2:18 PM

    Well the thing is not that they aren't human. They are. The thing is that they type in the stuff and therefore users receive the spam as well. That's what we wanted to prevent.
    Oh, and we should suggest it to Ray, so that he enters it into BlogCFC :-)
    But Rick, thanks anyway for the hint. I might consider it.
    Gert

  • 3 Steve Bryant // Nov 1, 2008 at 10:52 PM

    This is a purely content-based spam filter:
    http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/blog/index.cfm/SpamFilter

  • 4 Jonathan van Zuijlekom // Nov 12, 2008 at 6:15 PM

    We use CFFormProtect (http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/) on our sites. This uses a combination of anti-spam sollutions. It uses Akismet on the content. It uses hidden field which spambots tend to fill and it uses javascript to check is the mouse and keyboard where used.

    We get 0 comment spam using this technique.1

  • 5 Gert Franz // Nov 13, 2008 at 9:17 AM

    Jonathan,

    thanks for the hint. I must admit it would be a wise solution to do it that way. I would love Ray to build it into BlogCFC, since we are very busy writing Railo. Until then hopefully moderated comments are not a problem for you all.

    Gert

  • 6 Jonathan van Zuijlekom // Nov 13, 2008 at 9:44 AM

    Gert,

    We've submitted a request to Ray, but he's very busy :) Using cfformprotect is really simple, it could be up and running in 30 minutes.

    I've just started playing around with Railo 3 and must say I like it. I installed it on an Ubuntu server VM with Apache as the main webserver.

  • 7 Jake Munson // Dec 17, 2008 at 6:47 PM

    Hi Gert,

    I know this is an old post, but I wanted to let you know that CFFP is now built into BlogCFC. :)

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