{"id":4730,"date":"2004-01-16T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2004-01-16T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T19:01:36","slug":"zap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/16\/zap.html","title":{"rendered":"Zap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New version of MT is out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/news\/2004_01.shtml#000882\">2.661<\/a>.  It includes some anti-comment-spam measures, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Submission rate throttling by IP.  If you try to submit too many comments too fast (settable parameter, in seconds), the submission will be blocked and your IP will go on the ban list.  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