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Spam trouble

February 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Spam trouble · Technology

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.

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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.

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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’.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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