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July 15, 2005
Movable Type updates coming
Movable Type, the makers of the fine software that powers this blog, are making a major update with a new version currently in Beta.
Matt Hicks, of eWeek says:
"The company also is trying to thwart a rising menace—the rise of spammers filling blog comment sections and stuffing trackbacks with unwanted and irrelevant comments and links."
Apparently, this will allow you to score posts similar to how Spam Assassin works which I assume will automatically detect and prevent some of the comment and trackback spam most of us have had to deal with.
I have Spam Assassin on my server, but haven't activated due to the fact that in some case you could lose legitimate email. To help reduce the amount of spam messages I receive I use a server side filtering system. Currently I have 2,397 filters set, and it has made a small dent in the amount of spam I receive. Personally, I feel this is a better method, although it takes quite a bit of time setting individual filters for all of the spam I get.
I don't think I would feel the same way about using this for the blog though. I think it would be great.
As many of you will have noticed, the trackback feature on this site has been disabled. Between the blog, email and message board spam, it was just taking more time that I wanted to give to fighting spam. Maybe after this new release I will be able to turn it on again.
Anil Dash, vice president of Six Apart's professional network says:
"...the upcoming Movable Type update puts the software steps ahead of current and potential competitors when it comes to providing features for IT and blog administrators."
You can read the full article at eWeek if you want to.
It sounds like a great promise... I guess we will know soon enough whether the software lives up to it.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at July 15, 2005 10:35 AM
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