October 02, 2004
Tired of Spam Entries
I have finally got fed up with the spam postings I get to this site. To fix this I have had to upgrade to the latest version on Movable Type which is the blogging software I use. After a few user errors on my part it is now working. Unfortunately the SPAM blacklister I use doesn't work and needed upgrading. But the documentation says it won't work with this latest version of the blogger. The other option is to remove it - which I think I have done ok. But that hasn't fixed everything.
The upshot is that you may not be able to post comments for a while until I work out what's wrong...
UPDATE: You can post now and I will moderate and approve later. The TypeKey feature doesn't work for me though. I have emailed Funky Dave to see if he can help.
LAST UPDATE: It all appears to work now. This means you can now not post comments to older entries (to reduce the spam I get) and I have to moderate your postings. However if you go to www.typekey.com and get a key (it only takes a few seconds) I can authorise you to post directly to the blog.
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at October 3, 2004 11:08 AM
Seems like a neat system. Isn't it depressing that we have to take more and more defensive measures to prevent SPAM and other things from the 'dark side' of the Internet. Sigh.
at October 3, 2004 04:06 PM
Hmmm, can't see the comment I just posted :-(
at October 3, 2004 04:08 PM
Ah, press refresh and all is revealed ;-)
at October 3, 2004 04:10 PM
aha. you got it fixed then. well done sir.
there's a version of mt-blacklist for the latest version of MT and it's most excellent. it's part of the plugin pack and is accessible from the main MovableType page.
i installed it about a month ago and it's stopped 2500 comment spams so far !
Posted by: funkypancake at October 3, 2004 08:24 PM