My “spam” box has been filling lately, and the spam plugin has also been making lots of mistakes. To reduce spam, I’ve added a new plugin: Comment E-Mail Verification.
Supposedly, if you have previously posted comments, you will not notice anything. If you have not previously posted a comment, the plugin will send an email to the email you list, and you will be required to respond. After that, you will be whitelisted.
I haven’t plowed through the plugin-code to verify that it actually works as advertised when first activated. I’m worried everyone is going to get an email. If a few of you could try commenting, let me know what happens…. (I’m going to put up a few tests too.)
Update
This comment doesn’t seem to moderate comments when people use new emails. I turned it off.
My first test….
Test when I’m not logged in to see if I get an email.
Not logged in; email not in database…. Will the spam filter send me email?
my first kick at the guinea pig…
I’m trying to figure out if this does anything at all! I added a comment using an email that was NOT in the database, and it let it through without first moderating and sending me a pesty email. 🙁
no email to me, Lucia. Negative proof is not evidence that it works, though..
I actually do not see where in the code the plugin checks the email against any database of emails.
I see where it create the form letter. I see the code for looking checking that the form letter was responded to so it can fish a moderated comment out of moderation.
I can see where it stores my settings and lets me customize the form letter.
But I cannot for the life of me see where it checks the email in the comments to moderate them in the first place!
Will a link to the masterful critique by Richard Lindzen on
The Peculiar Issue of Global Warming get through?
Or will a “spanner in the works” be considered spam?
See also: http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/Publications_other.html“>Lindzen-Rahmstorf Exchange, Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, edited by Ernesto Zedillo, and published by the Brookings Institution Press and the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale in 2008.
Will using a different email address make any difference?
Re: David L. Hagen (Mar 1 10:20),
No email sent to either regular email or unused(?) email after 6 or 4 minutes. Home free?
David==
I’ve become convinced this plugin is missing essential parts! The “readme” sounded good, but it seems to be missing the bits that actually moderate. Weird!
Dear LucÃa:
totally o/t, but how is your father???
jorge–
Much better! He’s even reconnected with an old buddy who has been inviting him to watch football and nascar at his place!
hurrahhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucia,
I’ve only made one previous comment though I read you everyday. So I’ll wait to see if I get an email.
Diana
PS no email after 5 minutes