The difficult thing about blogging with WordPress is the spam comments you have to deal with. Everyday, there can be dozens of absolutely inane comments like these: Some, however, are a little trickier: They’re worded generically enough to seem legitimate, but they either link to a spam site, or they’re an attempt to get your [...]
Explore related content: Akismet, comments, plugin, spam, WordPress
Nofollow is an HTML element attribute promoted by Google that purportedly helps stop blog spam. Elements and attributes OK, let’s break that down. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language that web pages are written in. It takes normal English text, and adds additional information (called “markup”) that allows machines (computers) to take an action [...]
Explore related content: Blogging, Google, HTML, nofollow, spam
Slashdot has a story on the fifth anniversary of the CAN-SPAM act. The referenced article says that CAN-SPAM did help to establish minimum standards for legitimate businesses, and also encouraged most to go beyond the minimum and ask for permission before sending solicitous e-mail. But it didn’t, and can’t, stop truly illicit e-mails from non-legitimate [...]
Explore related content: CAN-SPAM, e-mail, spam
Advertisement
© 2010 Digitivity.org
