Everything has been suspiciously quiet lately. I have not been getting many e-mails and I thought there were no comments here: I rarely look at the site itself but rely on e-mail notification that a new comment has been made, and I haven’t been getting many e-mails.
Entries Tagged as 'Spam'
No Comment
December 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Technology
I have had a compliment or two about the new design e-mailed to me. They had to be e-mailed because apparently the comment facility doesn’t work. Oops. Sorry about that.
Behind the scenes
December 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on Behind the scenes · Technology
The comprehensive lack of apparent activity here for four days is not because my technical problems are persisting: it’s because they have gone away. “Gone away” does not mean “fixed” though it just means ‘gone away’ as in ‘popped out to the shops but might be back soon’.
Socialism allowed here!
November 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I was a little bit worried, reading a letter in the Guardian this week, that I may have set up WordPress to automatically nuke any comments containing the word “socialism”. I have a ‘blacklist’ of words and any comment containing them goes in the bin. The list is of words which crop up a lot […]
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Nice spam
July 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
Today I had a batch of comments trapped in moderation which I strongly suspect to be a type of spam (and apologies if I am wrong) but I let them through anyway. It will be obvious which ones I am referring to. There are four comments from two different names. Both names link to websites […]
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Scam
July 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Scam · Technology
Today’s most amusing scam e-mail purports to come from the Halifax bank. The fact that I don’t have an account with them is a bit of a giveaway actually, but this one stands out from the crowd. The bit where it has a link which is highlighted and reads “Sing in to Online Banking” is […]
Captcha
April 5th, 2007 · Comments Off on Captcha · Technology
Oops. I installed a captcha plugin to stop all the spam comments, but its working too well and won’t allow real ones either… back to the drawing board I think. UPDATE And now it seems to be working. I played around with it and it started working, but I don’t know what it was I […]
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Nasty spam
March 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Nasty spam · Technology
At the moment I have Bad Behavior and Spam Karma both turned off while the hunt for the dodgy code goes on. Akismet does a good job but still lets a lot through into the moderation queue for me to sift through. 99% of comments are blatant spam, but I have to scan through them […]
Spam Spam Spam
March 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
In the 24 hours I have had WordPress running again I have had 1200 spam comments trapped by Akismet and Spam Karma. With that sort of volume of spamming I have had to make the spam filters quite strict so there is a little more chance of getting false positives, and less chance of me […]
Back again!
March 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
Well everything is back up and running again. I guess I could have had it all up sooner if this was higher in my priorities. One thing I won’t do is apologise for not posting anything at all this week, or for the site being down. That always seems a bit self-important to me. (What […]