September 14, 2004
Online Journalism Review looks into comment spam
It's not that new an issue, but this is a pretty good overview of the state of the battle against comment spam.
One of the key points that ought to be explored in future stories on comment spam is how much of comment spam is a problem with current versions of software, because it appears there's two key problems. There's fighting newer spam techniques with current versions of blog platforms (TypePad's made as much progress in this regard as Movable Type and TypeKey have), and there's the separate issue of getting people to update to current versions of software so that they'll be protected.
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