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  • CAPTCHA removed

    We've had to disable the CAPTCHA function as of today since it was causing a comment error - we're now looking into what happened and what can be done in future to cut down on spam postings. I'll keep you updated.
    Posted to Kent Trust Web Support Blog (Weblog) by Sophie on 04-23-2008

  • CAPTCHA and continuing work

    Alan suggested we implement a CAPTCHA feature (the confirmation boxes with letters and numbers in that appear when you're commenting on a website to make sure you're not a spambot!) - this is now live. I've certainly noticed less spam getting through - anyone else? There does seem to be some...
    Posted to Kent Trust Web Support Blog (Weblog) by Sophie on 04-10-2008

  • Managing Queued Spam Postings

    I am aware that yesterday saw a higher than usual amount of attempted spam postings here at the blogs. If you are a blog owner, please make sure you go in regularly and Review Comments to your blog to delete all the unwanted posts. Do not allow unwanted comments to simply continue building up as it will...
    Posted to Kent Trust Web Support Blog (Weblog) by Sophie on 12-14-2006

  • Offensive Spam Notifications: 25 August

    As I'm sure many of you have noticed, today has seen a selection of offensive spam postings bouncing off our blog spam buffer. Please see below the reply I sent to one concerned blogger who forwarded me an e-mail notification she'd recieved: "[ This] is one of many identical notifications of spam postings...
    Posted to Kent Trust Web Support Blog (Weblog) by Sophie on 08-25-2006

  • Blog commenting function

    A quick update to let you know that the problems we've been experiencing with comments being posted on blogs and galleries seem to have been resolved. As far as we can tell this was due to an error in some of the settings being used to block spam postings. If any user is still having problems posting...
    Posted to Kent Trust Web Support Blog (Weblog) by Sophie on 07-13-2006

  • Spam and offensive postings

    In response to a recent flurry of offensive "spam" postings in several blogs here (mine included!) I offer Clusterbloggers the following advice (below) and please rest assured I'm still working to improve the security settings. This is new software to me and I'm still learning all the bells and whistles...
    Posted to Kent Trust Web Support Blog (Weblog) by Sophie on 06-20-2006
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