Comments on: BlogSpam: The Troops Are Getting Tired http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:42:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Will R. http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Will R. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the-troops-are-getting-tired/#comment-555 Ok...here it is...the kiss of death...but I haven't had any of this with Manila. This is a war I don't think you're going to win, Alan. Ok…here it is…the kiss of death…but I haven’t had any of this with Manila. This is a war I don’t think you’re going to win, Alan.

]]> By: Ben Brophy http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Ben Brophy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the-troops-are-getting-tired/#comment-556 I'm feeling bad. I made a few of the changes suggested in a piece you linked to, and I haven't had a single blog spam since. I am not sure why. Could it be because no one reads my blog? Or is it that I don't post so often, some I'm not listed in the blog aggregators most of the time? Not that I'm eager to get more, but hey, what's wrong with my blog? I’m feeling bad. I made a few of the changes suggested in a piece you linked to, and I haven’t had a single blog spam since. I am not sure why. Could it be because no one reads my blog? Or is it that I don’t post so often, some I’m not listed in the blog aggregators most of the time? Not that I’m eager to get more, but hey, what’s wrong with my blog?

]]> By: Alan Levine http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the/comment-page-1/#comment-557 Alan Levine Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2004/05/19/blogspam-the-troops-are-getting-tired/#comment-557 Will, I *know* it is a losing war. But I am learning things in the battle. Ben, My blog has been quiet, the issues I am fighting are in the set of 5 or 6 other blogs I host that are still riding the default MT templates. Besides the spam problem, there are all kinds of issues I have with :out of the box, Georgia Blue" MT set up (Chopped in the head excerpts in RSS feeds, the "archive" approach of just munging together all posts in a category, etc) Will, I *know* it is a losing war. But I am learning things in the battle.

Ben,

My blog has been quiet, the issues I am fighting are in the set of 5 or 6 other blogs I host that are still riding the default MT templates. Besides the spam problem, there are all kinds of issues I have with :out of the box, Georgia Blue” MT set up (Chopped in the head excerpts in RSS feeds, the “archive” approach of just munging together all posts in a category, etc)

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