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CDB Entry: How I Have Spent/Wasted Time Lately

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:41:40 -0700

Ouch, my blogging fingers are rusty. Among tweaking and updating many of our project web sites this week, an inordinate amount of time has been spent: * cleaning up the droppings we find on our wikis (Thanks for all the...

comment by: Ben Brophy

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:30:10 -0700

Here's my magic formula for blocking spam. I turn off comments after three weeks (this kills about 95% of the spam I got) and comments that have more than 1 link in them need to be approved by me. This allows me to kill the other 5% before they reach my blog. Spammers seem unable to resist putting three or four links in a post, so they always get trapped, but my readers seldom want to post even a single link. I am sad to limit comment functionality b/c of evil spammers, but it's been working really well for me. I don't know that it matters but I'm using wordpress ( http://www.wordpress.org/ ).

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Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:09:34 -0700

Excerpt: I've been advised not to blog about spam lest I make myself a target, but I cannot sit idly and will not operate in fear of scum who feel they have some internet granted right to blast their gunk on the web sites I have devoted my time and passion to ...
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Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:36:24 -0700

Excerpt: WikiSpam rant: Alan Levine invested his time in a Wiki for educators, and has had it up to here with bestialty-horse-sex links inserted in his group's work: "I've been advised not to blog about spam lest I make myself a...
��Weblog: JD on MX
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Wed, 01 Dec 2004 04:43:05 -0700

Excerpt: So Alan has been calling out the spammers , daring them to mess with him.
��Weblog: Weblogg-ed - Using Weblogs and RSS in Education
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