Re: how to keep your blog from being spammed

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

You also can edit the comments on Word Press and I've removed URLs 
and addresses before if it looked like someone was trying to drive 
traffic to his or her site, but kept the comment, especially if it 
was nice. ;-)

jems

>Doug and all,
>This discussion couldn't be more timely as I spent last evening 
>searching for and cleaning out meaningless comments linking to 
>meaningless selling sites. I agree Akismet is very effective with true 
>spam and actually catches some of the junk.
>Rose Marie Nichols McGee
>Nichols Garden Nursery
>1190 Old Salem Road NE
>Albany, Or 97321
>www.nicholsgardennursery.com
>On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Doug Green wrote:
>
>>  Nan.
>>
>>  I assume you have Akismet set up and running.  That takes care of 
>>  the vast
>>  majority of automated spammers.  There are plugins available that do 
>>  what
>>  Donna suggested - putting in a captch box where people have to enter 
>>  a code
>  > to get their comment into the system.
>>
>

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