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TypeKey Six Apart's new MT 3.0 feature against 'Comment Spam'

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Sat, 03/27/2004 - 01:57 — Christoph C. Cemper

Six Apart Trains Guns on 'Comment Spam' writes about the new authentication service "TypeKey" by SixApart that shall enable a central comment registration – so blog commenters will not need to register with every single weblog… oh well – redirecting all urls and having MTBlacklist installed takes away some hundreds of spam comments anyway :)

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