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Movable Type Plans Software Update To Combat Comment Spam
By Steve Rubel
Expert Author
Article Date: 2004-12-21
eWeek reports that Movable Type is planning to release an update to help stem the recent flood of comment spam that has hit blogs and clogged Web-hosting servers.
"Six Apart late Monday planned to release an update to its Movable Type Weblogging software to combat a recent surge of blog comment spam.
Comment spam came to a head for Six Apart because of a bug in Movable Type 3.1, which led spam comments to still cause a load on Web servers and databases even when the comments were blocked from appearing on blogs, Dash said. "
According to WHIR, servers at Web hosting companies are being slowed by comment spam attacks on Movable Type Weblogs, leading some hosting companies to disable the blogging tool.
About the Author: Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.
He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.
