Matt Read, Flibbertigibbet

After deleting thousands of spam comments every week, I got fed up. I went looking for a way to eliminate spam all together. There are many different approaches that work at completely destroying spam bots A Honey Pot, a Habari plugin by Sean Coates, that adds a CSS hidden field that only bots would fill in; encoding the "action" URL, and input elements names and ids of the submitting form, a technique used by Prof. Sneddy, killing all spam bots which don't use an HTML parser (which is all of them). There are others, but those are two that ...