Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Some Blog Housekeeping

SPAMDon't know if anybody else's noticed but there's been a bit of an attack going on here for the past few days: comment spam. I have had some pretty sneaky measures in place to prevent this - basically, they stop robots dead in their tracks. If you're going to spam MacRaven, you'll have to be a human, with a keyboard and a browser. To date this has stopped most attacks - but the most recent spate has gotten through. Why? Because they are people, with keyboards and browsers. Captchas wouldn't stop this, so I've had to take other, more severe (and technical) measures. We'll see if they work - if you notice any problems getting through with legitimate writebacks, by all means drop me a line.

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On 3/18/2010 16:57:19
Walter Jeffries wrote

On 3/18/2010 17:21:09
Dave H wrote

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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