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cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by cobalt123 I am hoping the FCC can spray this one down. I am not hopeful. Every three weeks or so, Rachel, a recording, calls from random numbers around the US. She must get around. She keeps telling me this is the last time to get this offer from Card Member Services to lower the rate on my credit card. She pretty much has take over for Cathy, who has been at this since 2008 When I wait to speak to a representative, as just happened an hour ago, I request to be taken off their calling list, Then they hang up on me. I’ve had about 20 of these this year, and each time I dutifully file a complaint at http://donotcall.gov. I have never done business with this company, and from what I understand, the government should be able [...]

Yes, fighting blog spam has been a huge distraction. I would rather be creating things than roach stomping. But I refuse to close off comments completely; it runs dead against what blogs should do to foster community building. About 36 hours ago, I took the approach of renaming my mt-comments.cgi script. The new name was discovered by spam bots in less than 24 hours, so I doubt they are scarfing it from Google (regardless, for now, I am excluding all robots in the server robots.txt file, though I doubt the majority of bots even pay attention to that anymore). The problem in my previous approach of funneling all comments to the individual entry form is that the HTML source clearly reveals the URL for the script to generate spam. I had done it completely backwards by removing links to the pop up comment form. So the goal is to remove [...]

I told you I was serious. Steps have been taken to turn the tide on comment spam roaches. The MT-Blacklist can only go so far (and activity logs show it does squeeze out the regular v*agra repeat crowd). Image courtesy of the Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots . Next in the arsenal are steps 1 and 2 from “Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog”, courtesy of one of the quirkiest blog names in recent memory “The Accumulating Evidence of Yoz Grahame’s Infuriating Inability to Prioritise”. The first involved removing all uses of the JavaScript pop-up for entering comments from index pages, which most easily reveals a full URL for spam action in the source. Links for comments now point to the anchor link on the individual entry. The next step is to rename the mt-comments.cgi script to…. ahem…. something else. This demands an edit to the mt.cfg file to let [...]

Ahhhh, Spring time is almost here in the northern hemisphere (though here in Phoenix we have already experienced 90 degrees F for more than a week). This is a favorite time of year in the Sonoran Desert, as those precious relatively small, but important amounts of December, January rain, cause a burst of color as cacti and desert wild flowers burst into a raging riot of colors, even if for just a few weeks. We have desert landscaping at our home, not a lick of grass nor any time spent pushing a lawnmower, and last weekend, while tending the gardens (pulling weeds) metaphors began wafting through my mind…..

Now out to improve your MovableType blog sanity, is Jay Allen’s miraculous MT-Blacklist – A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin version 1.5. This is a large update and offers one click, de-spammiing of both comments and trackbacks, adding to blacklist file, and rebuilding of offended files. It is like magic. I had one arrive today with 4 links not even on tyhe blacklist, and killed it cold, dead in seconds. I love the satisfaction, even if it is still reactionary (they spam, I spray). It is more fun that squashing cockroaches, and very parallel, except cockroaches have more more nobility and integrity than spammers. Please, somebody with some deep pockets of extra cash, reward Jay Allen for heroic coding.