# HG changeset patch # User Steve Kemp # Date 1198681405 0 # Node ID 07482ca8e696667179983fbe90bf47b7ab40bdf0 # Parent 72a422b4978bda8c364aad46a89cf5adfd6be9ce minor rewording + new section on spam. diff -r 72a422b4978b -r 07482ca8e696 COMMENTS --- a/COMMENTS Wed Dec 26 12:44:27 2007 +0000 +++ b/COMMENTS Wed Dec 26 15:03:25 2007 +0000 @@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ Single Machine The blog input is stored upon your webserver and you generate - the output directly to a web-accessible location upon that + the output directly to a http-accessible directory upon that machine. Multiple Machines - The blog input lives upon a machine, and once you've generated + The blog input lives upon one machine, and once you've generated the output you copy it over to a remote webserver where it may be viewed. - Depending upon which of these ways you use the software the + Depending upon which of these ways you use the software the comment support will need to be handled differently. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ which hosts the blog, and adjust the settings at the start of that file to specify: - 1. The location to save the comments to. + 1. The local directory to save the comments within. 2. The source and destination email addresses to use for notication purposes. @@ -102,5 +102,19 @@ --post-build="rsync vazr ./output user@remote:/path/to/location" + +Spam Filtering +-------------- + + In the modern world many blogs will receive comments which are + just spam, and not related to your content at all. + + My solution to this is to use an email spam filter upon the + comments. So my comments are saved to a directory, and later + tested automatically. If they are non-spam they are kept, if + they are spam they are deleted. + + You might need to do something similar for your own installation. + Steve --