written Friday 16 April 2004
| Blog Spam eats Raw Death |
I make a point of avoiding tech talk about blogging, but for today's news I'll make an exception.
Now and then, Gentle Reader, you may have noticed certain disgusting comments in this blog site--for example: adverts for enlarging, well, the point of the matter. These unwelcome comments are called Blog Spam, by which cretins try to persuade Google that their sites are widely popular or something. Since November I've had to spend dozens of hours cleaning out this filth as fast as it appears.
Tonight I installed MT-Blacklist, which does two things. First, it let me clean out ALL the blog spam. Second, new spam is blocked from this site. Best of all, it won't affect your commenting in the least (might even make the screens appear faster)--so COMMENT!!
MT-Blacklist was written as a public service by one Jay Allen, an obviously talented and altruistic programmer. His site modestly allows for contributions, and as soon as MT-Blacklist automatically deletes its first junk comment off Downwind of Amsterdam, I will send the man some rent money.
Let's hear it for the good guys.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled...
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Yeah, I've had to clean out a few hundred nasty comments, by hand. It was was taking 4-5 hours each week, so that I thought seriously about stopping this blog altogether. Glad to hear most didn't get seen.
And the pictures...please consider holding off on grrrr-ing until you read this: each post with pictures takes 3-5 hours. With large-format pictures, that goes up to 8 hours. I don't post until the pictures are exactly the way I remember it. If I started delivering large-format pictures for everything, I'd have no time for a job, which means no Netherlands, which means no blog etc etc.
Plus, large-format pic files are huge: at 500 KB each, only 200 would take up my whole server space.
Plus, then I have to upload and test all this from dial-up. I know, I know, "how 1997"...
howdy. i'd never noticed any disgusting comments, but then again what do i know ?
great recent posts master eric, i'm still in keukenhof, whatever happened to 'click here for larger photos' in the following posts ? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!