New tools in the fight against comment spam

ScottW has just uploaded a new version of .Text which has some major new features.  The cooleast new features relate to management of comments and tools to help remove comment spam.

The feedback tab now allows the deletion of multiple comments in a single action so, if like me you get hit with 30 or 40 spam comments in a row you can delete them much more easily.  There are also the ability to moderate comments (admin > options > preferences).  If you turn moderation on, each new comment won't show up on your blog until after you approve it.

Another security feature is that new comments to posts more than 30 days old will not be allowed. In the future this will be much more configurable, but, in the meantime, this should really help to reduce the surface area of blog spam attacks.

Oh yeh, there's also a new TextBox control on the posts page which should now enable blogging from mozilla/firefox.