In a failed attempt to clean spam from the comments, we've lost all of the comments posted since late last year. Sorry.
I've often debated whether or not I should post some of my more in-depth responses to your questions in the comments section or as a primary blog post. I guess I have my answer now.
I should also take this moment to recommend that if you've got a blog, that you post any siginificant response commentary there and trackback rather than posting to the comments section.
With all this comment spam, comments may eventually go away. We'll see.
Posted by asa at January 19, 2004 03:39 PMI forgive you. :) (Nothing big for me.)
...although I'd hate to see comments go, as there is often a little useful discussion in there. But if the spam gets bad enough, I suppose you have no choice.
Posted by: Robert Morris on January 19, 2004 04:28 PM'Spam in a blog' what does it mean? ..Someone who advertises his commercial site, or someone who posts off-topic messages, or someone who follows the IP address and attach a virus to another which becomes a 'Trojan Horse', or what else?
Posted by: Alberto Patelli on January 19, 2004 05:19 PMAlberto, most of it is in the form of comments advertising child and other pornography.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on January 19, 2004 06:02 PMMost of mine has been Adverts for Viagra
Posted by: Jeremiah on January 19, 2004 07:52 PMSomeone trying to tell you something? :-)
BTW Asa, keep the Mars info coming!
Posted by: Joel on January 20, 2004 12:49 PMIt seems from everything I've read about comment-spam, the whole point of it is to put in links to someone's page, so they can raise their Google ranking. If you just remove the 'URL' field from the comment form, wouldn't that solve this problem?
Posted by: Ted Mielczarek on January 21, 2004 01:41 PM