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Another solution to comment spam

Elliott Back posted a comment to my proposed solution to comment spam.

He has setup an extreme spam stopgap measure. It uses Javascript to add a client-side hash, and then checks the MD5 hash on the server side (within a 60 second timeout) before allowing the comment. The only problems I see are for users without Javascript, or who take longer than a minute to write a comment.

Posted 12-01-2004 7:11 AM by Darrell Norton

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James Geurts wrote re: Another solution to comment spam
on 12-01-2004 2:47 AM
Are there actually people that don't use javascript? I can see the security nuts that are scared to plug their computer into the wall, but I would think that pretty much every user has javascript enabled. There are so many sites that require it for normal operation.
Darrell wrote re: Another solution to comment spam
on 12-01-2004 3:18 AM
I've heard anecdotal reports of no Javascript usage in the 1-2 percent range. But I haven't seen any real statistics.
Tallies the techno monkey wrote re: Blog Spam (Smog?!)
on 12-16-2004 6:08 PM