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Om Malik | Monday, November 22, 2004 | 3:57 PM PT | 65 comments

For past three days I have come under a severe comment spam attack, and this has forced me to do what I never wanted to do - go for moderated comments and only for registered users. I hate to do this, but the evil bastards who spam us bloggers are to blame. The scum that they are, they are ruining the whole weblog experience. I think it is time for weblog tool developers to step-up to the plate and come-up with more humane way to over come this problem.

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May 4th, 2007
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November 22nd, 2004
5:20 PM PT
Om said:

just a test post

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