Switching on anti spam in Dominoblog

Steve Castledine  9 October 2008 10:40:49

I've mentioned this a few times, but it can't be mentioned too many times due to its importance for web facing blog's.

The Domino Blog template has a pretty effective anti spam mechanism to prevent rogue comments on your public sites (my site blocks hundreds every day - of course you cannot block all the manual one's - but it still can block some of these as well).

This setting is not turned on by default. Why? Well back in the day when wheels were square, a lot of people did not trust javascript and it was switched off. As part of the anti spam mechanism uses javascript this did block all comments by people without javascript so you would get complaints that this happened by default (especially as inside the corporate firewall spam is not the same issue).

It maybe this default setting can be reviewed as things have moved on, however in the meantime here are the details to enable plus other protection details.

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