Loaded up bloglines this morning to discover that my cable internet speed will be increasing come January, (Thanks to both Geek News Central and Chad for pointing to that.)and Movable Type has officially recognized the server load issue associated with comment spam and is working on correcting it. My replacement has been ordered and will…
I wanted to say something more about the haloscan trackback that I was talking about yesterday. I don’t know that trackback is that big a deal. Simply put, I think it’s just not quite there yet. I can’t, using Blogger and many other tools, automatically ping a post on another blog. I have to go…
I spent over an hour helping one of the tenants of our office building with an email problem. He explained to me that he couldn’t send email, even though he was receiving email just fine. Figuring this was a server issue, or a simple settings issue, I agreed to go over and check all of…
As many of you know, over at the child abuse site, I use Movable Type, and I have often raved about how well MT-Blacklist works to keep out comment spam. Well, thanks to a pointer from Christine, I see this morning that there is a bug in the latest version of MT-Blacklist. The rather simple…
Yes I did, finally, upgrade the Child Abuse blog to MT 3.11. I listed the reasons why over on that site, so I won’t get into all the details of comment spam again over here. The upgrade was pretty painless, and the upgrade of MT-Blacklist wasn’t too bad either. Both allow for a lot more…
As you may remember, I’ve been pushing RSS as an answer to our communications people when it comes to dealing with spam filters. My thinking was, if we can get our members to move toward adopting newsfeeds as a way to get information from our website, we can avoid all of the problems we’ve been…