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The ReCaptcha MailHide API

I liked Michael Fienen’s post at doteduguru.com yesterday about obfuscating email addresses – lots of good methods to try to hide email addresses from spam robots, even though sometimes we’ve already lost the war on spam and robots scraping out sites. Would the fight be better fought on the spam filter and blocking end? Hard [...]

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Preemptive Strikes Against Blog Spam

Blog spam is a pain. It wastes your time, your bandwidth and storage space. Kyle asked today on Twitter for some advice on how to reduce spam loads. Here are some plugins and code I’ve used to reduce spam on my blogs.
Akismet
This plug-in does a very nice job of marking spam and is set-it-and-forget-it easy. [...]

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