Dryice Liu’s Blog

new way to fight blog spams

I reached Joe Gregorio’s blog today when looking around the net. And besides the nice animation, the author has a clever way to fight blog spams. I’m quoting his/her words below:

You must enter your name followed by something in parentheses, either
an email address or the URI of your web site. For example: If you
don’t […]

¶ Posted 25 June 2007 § misc ‡ Comments (3)

spams

Well it’s my mistake that I didn’t take a close look to the comment of my blog. However when I take a look today, I found thousands of spam posts there. And I have to delete all of them.
I think it’s time to setup some kind of spam filter or human approve thing. Human approve […]

¶ Posted 28 August 2006 § misc ‡ Comments (0)

Captcha

Captcha stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”, which is the small images we usually see when registering or logining to some systems like free email. It is developted to protect from robots. See the wikipidia page for detail.
There are several Python packages implementing this:

PyCaptcha
A cook book reciept on […]