A few days ago, Project Honey Pot introduced a new service, http:BL, “a system that allows website administrators to take advantage of the data generated by Project Honey Pot in order to keep suspicious and malicious web robots off their sites”. A honeypot is a trap set to detect email havesters and spam robots : this should ring a bell to most bloggers, I guess. The beauty of Project Honey Pot is that anyone can contribute : just register an account, download the script and put it somewhere on your blog. It’s been more effective than I would have thought and wished : the day I had my first honeypot installed, it detected a new and before unseen comment spammer. Contributing to this project is an easy way of making the web a cleaner place, and it will also benefit to another WordPress related spam-fighting project : the almighty Bad […]
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WP Plugin: View All Comments
WP Plugin: View All Comments Install this plugin to view all comments from a specific commenter left on your blog in the past. Even though it sounds mundane, this could be a useful tool for your blog, especially if you want to understand the general demeanor of a particular reader. The grouping is done by email address and installation is very simple. I have seen similar functionality on forums and such.
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