Comment spam is getting worse. I'm getting really annoyed. And I cannot really do much, as my blog is hosted by dotnetjunkies.com. I've been tinkering on a small tool that would at least allow me to select a whole batch of comments and then delete them all. Finding all comments of your blog and presenting them in a selectable form is easy. Problem is that it is so ___ing hard to remove comments over HTTP.
The SOAP interfaces do not seem to support this, so I thought of just automating Internet Explorer from a tool. Event that is really hard with dotText. The Feedback.aspx page works with complex postbacks. In the old times where all applications would be passing ID's on the querystring, it would have been peanuts to emulate a user deleting a long list of comments by ID, but postbacks are a lot harder to emulate.
DotnetJunkies.com, pleeeease implement a simple CAPTCHA on the comment forms?
I haven't got a clue what's taking Microsoft so long putting up the sample code for
my article on Reporting over SharePoint lists. For the time being, you can download it from my site.
Check it out.