Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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Spam Attack

I don’t know what’s happened, but I’m suddenly getting about 500 spam comments posted on this blog! They are mainly increasingly explicit porn adverts, mixed in with strange products varying from dog grooming to plastic surgery. And of course any real comments are buried in the middle of it all.

It’s a bit depressing scrolling through hundreds of unpleasant two line posts. Has someone written a WordPress Spam filter? If not, there’s a great opportunity.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Spam Attack”

  1. Sam Halliday Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    We use akismet, which comes with Wordpress… you just need to set up an account at wordpress.com and then enter your login details in the wp-admin plugins panel.

  2. Richard Marshall Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    Cool - thanks Sam. Will make that happen. There’s been 173 since lunchtime!

  3. Richard Marshall Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    This is a test comment by Alex! Hi Richard.

  4. Richard Marshall Says:
    May 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Hi Alex!

    And thanks Sam - Akismet is working a treat.

    rmm

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