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December 21, 2004

Movable Type 3.14 released

Six Apart have released Movable Type 3.14, primarily in an effeort to stop comment spam overloading their servers.

Whilst Six apart blame automated bots themselves for increasing server loads, they have also made significant changes to prevent the unnecessary processing of comments, such as:

• Unnecessary rebuilds upon comment moderation are eliminated.
• Generation of internal bookkeeping data for dynamic pages is not performed when using static pages.
• New weblogs default to having comment moderation enabled.

However, webmasters at Threadwatch point out that reducing server loads does nothing to combat actual comment spamming. Nick Wilson has also posted an article, The Solution to Blog Spamming, which aims to address many issues.

Posted by brian_turner at December 21, 2004 02:09 PM

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