15 December 2004
Typekey Login Now Required
Although MT-Blacklist prevents most spam comments from actually appearing in my blog, it can only do so after the spammer has already sent one or more comments, each of which spawns a Perl process on the server. This morning, the server was crippled by several massive waves of spam comment requests resulting in dozens of runaway Perl processes. If you don't know what this means, let me assure you that it's a problem.
So from now on, you must log into Typekey in order to post a comment. If you don't have a Typekey account, you can register for one here. It's free and their privacy policy is reasonable. You don't even have to reveal your email address when submitting a comment.
I'm sure spammers have ways of exploiting Typekey too, but hopefully this will slow them down for at least a little while.