Fight against SPAMBots - update

As noted in my earlier post on the same subject I made changes to the comment structure so that the comments are now moderated. Which means that any comment posted on my weblog would require my review and approval before they appear on the website. After I made the change on 29 September I had not received any spam comments on my weblog and I thought I had finally scared them away. But today I got some more spam comments on my website and it appeared on my Review list as soon as I logged in to the website as myself. But now, the beauty of the solution is that this is completely transperant to my readers and I can see all the comments in one screen in a table and can select all and delete all at once instead of going through each one of them separately which was very tedious. Of course it is going to add to my work, but looking at the readership of my blog, I don't think that's going to be an issue at least in the short run ;).

Of course this is not the most elegant solution for this problem, but is sufficiently effective for people who don't know much programming or don't have time to really implement some of the better solutioins out there as mentioned here as told to me by my good friend Santosh Tamhane (Thanks Santosh!!). Some of the solutions mentioned there talk about changing settings on web server (presumed Apache) and some are just too much technical for me to really spend time on it and try it without breaking my setup. Maybe I will try it out sometime when I will have more time on my hands.