Too much spam

The levels of spam I receive have been growing in the last few months. Much of it comes from this blog. Last year my approach was to require commenters to be approved. An email would come to me and I would approve them, or not, if they were spam.

Lately the spam level has gotten so high that I am missing emails. On my Mac, the bayesian filter does a good job. On my Linux laptop, I just cannot seem to get Evolution’s spam filter to work. Beats me.

Anyway this weekend I declared war on spam. I have added Blacklist to my blog, deleted all spam comments and trackbacks, and I wait to see how that goes.

This post is partly to see how my spam filters go. Update: A page full of trackbacks… Turning off that feature. Try again.

By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.