I've turned the CAPTCHA feature back on. (This is the twisty "word" you have to type in to post a comment.)
It appears that some spam bot found me -- fourteen "comments" were posted between yesterday and today. Deleting these is a laborious one-at-a-time process, and it's just too much of a pain to keep doing it.
I'll turn the CAPTCHA feature back off in a few days. Meantime, sorry for the inconvenience.
5 comments:
I've been getting spammed too (as of today) and will be using the word verification feature for awhile.
What a nuisance.
Thanks for you commiseration, Beth.
Sucks how the few can ruin things for the many, doesn't it?
See Brendan? I TOLD you you'd have no problems!
Well, so far, no sign of the notorious spambots at my place anyway.
Why doesn't some bright programmer come up with a program that will trace back those spam senders and jam up their computers? Failing that, why couldn't the letters you have to type in be the same every time? Do you really have to come up with new letters to foil the spam bot? It doesn't seem like they could figure out your "password letters" just by botting around.
P.S. I couldn't get the preview feature to work on this msg.
TC --
There are various ways to trace spam back to its source. The problem is, most spam is sent out by herds of "zombie" computers -- machines that have been infected by malware, that send out spam unbeknownst to the machine owners.
A second source of spam is one-time use free web mail accounts.
So, it's hard to catch the true originators, and programs sent back to the originating machines usually punishes the wrong party.
As to the CAPTHCA: I don't have control over the appearance of the "words" beyond switching them on or off. I agree -- it would be better for my low-traffic blog to show the same word every day for a week, or make the word easier to read, or other more user-friendly variations.
Someday I'll move off of Blogspot and run my blog in a way that gives me more control over such matters. The problem is, Blogspot does 95% of what I want it to do, without my having to do anything on the administrative end. Thus, the inertia is significant.
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