September 08, 2005
Spam comments

Well, it has been about 10 days since I've gotten MovableType upgraded. One of the main reasons I went to the trouble was that I used to get inundated with comment spam, so much so that I had turned off comments throughout my blog. Better comment spam protection was one of the touted benefits of the upgrade. I don't think I'm even using all of the capabilities for user validation which are available to me.

Today I got my first comment spam since the upgrade. I don't know if this means that the spammers have figured out my upgrade and will now start hitting me again or if this is just one spammer who managed to slip by the MT restrictions. In any event I'll be watching this and may be reconfiguring my comment usage to choke off the spammer's access if it starts being a problem again.

Posted by JoKeR at September 08, 2005 07:31 PM | TrackBack
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Hi JoKeR! I'm not a spammer! But I did want to link your XML feed into my Livejournal friends' page so I can keep track of you and whatever other Pirates have RSS or XML feeds; but I got an error when I clicked on your "Syndicate this site" button. It asked if I wanted to save an .rdf file, which FatherJake's and other sites didn't ask. Is yours working and I'm just missing something? :)

Posted by: textjunkie on September 9, 2005 08:04 PM

Honestly, I don't know. I haven't been using my own rss feed and I haven't done anything to test it since I upgraded. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Posted by: JoKeR on September 10, 2005 10:14 AM
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