http://www.blogoffusion.com ColdFusion Blogs en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:12:55 -0400 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:53:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mdinowit@houseoffusion.com mdinowit@houseoffusion.com http://www.blogoffusion.com/021108-confirming-your-address-for-spam.cfm I just posted an idea up to the iMS list and got back an email from a list member asking me to confirm that I'm a human making a post. I rarely respond to these requests but on a whim I decided to check the domain that was making the request. The res... New Ideas Spam Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:53:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/021108-confirming-your-address-for-spam.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/121807-antibot-spam-with-simplicity.cfm Spam-bots are getting smarter. I've seen bots that fill out forms with close to perfect information. I've seen bots that copy blog comments and then add in their spam. I've seen bots that adapt to their situations. What I have not seen are bots that ... New Ideas Spam Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:07:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/121807-antibot-spam-with-simplicity.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/103107-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present--admin-update.cfm There are two more minor tweaks to this anti-spam approach that need to be implemented. The first is to go back into the blog.cfc and comment out lines 1489 and 1491. This CFIF limits the recent comments to ones that have moderated set to true (which... Blog New Ideas Spam Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:16:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/103107-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present--admin-update.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/102607-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present--update.cfm There is one other step needed to make this work if your using the hack. There is a CFIF statement in blog.cfc that checks if moderation is turned on or not before displaying a comment. It does not matter if a specific comment is moderated or not, if... Blog New Ideas Spam Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:54:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/102607-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present--update.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/102607-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present.cfm I've been getting some human posted spam to my blog and I want it to stop. The problem is, to stop a human you have to either moderate all posts, force a sign in to post or search the comment for one of a million odd keywords. None of those solutions... Blog New Ideas Spam Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:20:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/102607-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/112106-antiform-spam-code-test.cfm I have what looks like a perfect anti-form spam system in place and I need to have it tested. If anyone reading this can post a comment, I'd appreciate it. Any error messages you may get or anything else would also be appreciated. There should not be... Spam Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:23:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/112106-antiform-spam-code-test.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/080406-really-stopping-blog-spam--part-1.cfm There's not a day that goes by without me receiving an email from a blog I posted to a few months back. Do these emails have any use? Are they full of new information? No. They are simply blog spam posts being sent to me. Welcome to the latest fr... Blog Spam Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:01:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/080406-really-stopping-blog-spam--part-1.cfm