Limited subscriptions to comments

13 February 2007 at 11:18 CET | In Blogging, Other |

Since April 2006 I’ve been using the very useful Subscribe To Comments plugin for WordPress. This allows commenters on my blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. I also used the feature to subscribe without leaving a comment with the show_manual_subscription_form PHP function. This allows people to leave their email address and also get notified of new comments without leaving a comment of there own.

As it turns out this last feature was mis-used by spammers. They dumped thousands of email addresses to be notified of any new comments. This led to my hoster disabling email functionality for my blog. I’ve now disabled the feature to subscribe without leaving a comment and the email is back on. I had to remove all the email addresses that were subscribed this way. My apologies for the real readers that left their email address this way. They will no longer be notified of new comments.

Spammers cannot misuse the basic feature of subscribing to comments as you have to leave a comment yourself. This comment has to pass the spam filter and/or moderation queue, so the chances of a spammer getting an email address on the mail list this way are very slim.

Again, my apologies for the readers who now no longer get their updates by email. If you want to keep getting notified by email, you will have to leave an actual comment and check the check box to subscribe.

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  1. I think it is a good idea for people to subscribe to a comments aggregator like CoComment.

    Okay it’s asynchronous, but it is a neat solution to the problem of tracking comments.

    Cheers, APC

    Comment by APC — 13 February 2007 #

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