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\nThe CAPTCHAs<\/a> seem to be working really<\/em> well. I haven’t had a single<\/em> piece of comment spam since I installed it, and several “real” people have been able to leave cool comments (so we’re not keeping the good people out). It’s a little weird to not have all the spam coming in; it’s a bit like having an annoying buzz disappear and finding that the silence seems a little off at first.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Gudlyf for the nifty plugin<\/a>! There are a few interface bits that I’d like to change if I had a few minutes, but I suspect they won’t bug me enough for me to ever get to them, and the basic system works really well. My mail spool is very<\/em> grateful :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CAPTCHAs seem to be working really well. I haven’t had a single piece of comment spam since I installed it, and several “real” people have been able to leave cool comments (so we’re not keeping the good people out). 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