Ways to deal with Blog spam

During the Week 1 Webcast "Blogging Beyond the Basics" by Nanette Donohue I mentioned in the chat the blog spam can be a real problem. This is something we are having issues with right now at UH. While most blogging software comes with the ability to deal with spam, sometimes spam can become a problem that is greater than the built-in spam tools can deal with. In these cases, you or your technical person may need to employ stronger methods. One option is an Apache module called mod_security (http://www.modsecurity.org/). This tool can be used to setup rules that all comments can be validated against. If a comment contains a certain word or words then mod_security can stop it from being submitted. Mod_security is a good tool but the configuration can be complex so make sure you read the documentation to get it properly configured.

If you want to know more technical info I've posted a bit more about it on my own blog.