The following is a list of articles tagged 'anti-spam'.
Blocking Spam Comments Using a Honey Pot
Everyone who uses the internet is familiar with spam and the problems it causes. Most people's familiarity is through its intrusion on email, and I've already outlined how I use gmail to block email spam. Since running this site I've had to deal with a lot of comment spam. It goes in phases but I receive about 2–3 spam comments per week and sometimes as much as 20. And this is a low traffic site. My initial strategy was to delete spam comments as they appear. I receive a notification... more »
Using Gmail as a Spam Filter
For some months now I've been running Exim4 as a mail server on a linux box. It's been running well since I set it up but I never managed to set up a spam filter. My knowledge of Exim4, and mail server config in general, is limited, so I've been avoiding changing anything unless I have to. Of course, the constant run of spam (in the region of thirty or forty emails per day) finally annoyed me enough to do something about it. I didn't want to set up and configure SpamAssassin, or similar... more »