Jump to navigation
Uninspired Days
R. Alex Whitlock
Posting has kinda slowed down in the last couple of days.
A day or two back there was an attack on the system and a substantial number of posts were almost lost. Due to sheer luck, nothing was. However, the attack was deliberate in an attempt to take over the site and put up a link farm. Trackbacks have become useless thanks to spammers and comments require logins again because Captcha kept breaking down in the fact of constant spammers slamming up against it. But this wasn't just about pollution, this was about causing actual damage. And it would be foolish to believe that this will not continue. Mike has put forth considerable investment to protect this site (and the others under his watch), but the entire situation and the knowledge that there are people trying to disable my site solely to put up a bunch of links for online gambling has made me less enthusiastic about blogging than I was last week.
Should be better by Monday?
buy cheap softwarecheap softwareoem softwarecheap adobe acrobat
Observations
I had to disable trackback on blogHOUSTON a few days ago. Even though trackback and blacklist now work together quite nicely, the sheer volume of trackback spams were causing problems. They dropped about 100 before I could get the thing disable. Not one got through, but still, they had to be cleaned out of the cue. Bah. Annoying.
Add an Observation
Comment spam is an ongoing problems that we're trying to address. Previously we required people to create accounts and log in. I am thankful to say that is no longer the case. We're giving Captcha another try and are playing around with a text-based Q&A variant of Captcha. So bear with us as we try to figure out how to best get a handle ont he problem. Please note that any comment on a post more than 30 days old will go into the moderation queue, where I will get to it when I can which could be once a week.
