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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Comment Guard Plugin</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
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		<title>5 Ways To Block A Spammer &#038; Splogger By IP Address From WordPress Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let&#8217;s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-ways-to-block-a-spammer-splogger-by-ip-address-from-wordpress-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro 5.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs in 13+1 languages - German,Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian. 
The new features in version 5.1 are:
1. In the option page (under Advanced -> Miscellaneous section) it now provides SQL queries which you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-51-released/</link>
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		<title>Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Software) Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/</link>
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		<title>The D-Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 3rd is our D-Day. We will launch a new version of our corporate website. We will also launch Comment Guard Pro, a WordPress plugin to eliminate comment spam from blogs. We will also formally launch our new forum and customer support site. This is a big big event for us. 
All our product pages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-d-day/</link>
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		<title>We now have forum for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have opened a forum for all our products and blogs. I haven&#8217;t officially announced it yet. Please check it out, register and leave your feedback and comments. Looking forward to hear from you.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/we-now-have-forum-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Overview of Exploits Block List - XBL (Spamhaus.org) in Comment Spam Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits. I was recently testing this list againt spam email. Here are few observations from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/</link>
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		<title>Comment Guard Pro: Over 1 Million Comment Spam Blocked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman&#8217;s Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-over-1-million-comment-spam-blocked/</link>
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		<title>Look What Akismet Approved Today aka Spams Which Fools Akismet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Akismet continues to get in spams approved these days while sometimes rejecting valid comments on my blog. To give you a small sample, here are some of the comments which passed through Akismet plugin today -
Note: Adult stuff ahead&#8230; you have been warned.
Name: Anonymous &#124; URL: vorginfilms . hitcoat . cn / thons-and-ass-and-voyeur . html [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/look-what-akismet-approved-today/</link>
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		<title>Error of Spam Protection by Restricting Comments on Old Posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a widespread assumption by many bloggers that comments on old posts are mostly spam. There are several WordPress plugins to prevent commenting on old posts, even posts as recent as one month old like, for example, Akismet. This is plain wrong and can result in losing many valuable comments. Such practices should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/error-of-spam-protection-by-restricting-comments-on-old-posts/</link>
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		<title>Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Plugin) Released for Internal Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more. We have combined years of experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released-for-internal-testing/</link>
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