November 17, 2004
Notice

If you've emailed me over the last two weeks and I haven't yet responded, it's not because I'm ignoring you. It's not because my inbox is teeming. It's not even because my apartment looks like my closet threw up. It's because I suck. And I'm sorry (yep, I'm sorry too). Stand by, I'm getting to it.

On another note. There is a battle of epic proportions taking place between me and comment spam or comment spam and I or whatever is grammatically correct. As a result, I'm going to start closing comments a week after a post is up to stop the ads for levitra, cialis, poker, and penis enlargement pills from attempting to take over my site. They shant take me down. This fight I will win and I will do it with high heels on. And again I say to you dear brethern, know that in these perilous times, there are little people doing big things. And we shall join hand in hand as commrades in the faith and overthrow the ruling spamming class.

Posted by Ambra at November 17, 2004 11:11 PM

Comments

I don't know if you have looked into yet but here a helpful article that has a lot of tips for fending off comment spam.

Posted by: Rod H at November 18, 2004 7:03 AM


Ambra: you do not suck, and you never will. Your standards are much too high for you to ever allow that to happen. You're just in a bit of a bind right now, and you have both the grace and class to admit it and apologize for any unintended slights.

You rock, girl.
Now, quit worrying so much. ;)

Posted by: Joan at November 18, 2004 11:29 AM


Joan: Thanks for the vote of confidence ;-)

Rod: I'm going to check into your suggestion. What do you know about MT blacklist? Cuz my comment spam is ridiculous.

Posted by: Ambra Nykol at November 18, 2004 2:03 PM


I know quite a bit about MT Blacklist and quite a few people use it. The solutions I would recommend right now are numbers 1,2,3,10, and maybe 6. If you need any help just give me a holla.

Posted by: Rod H at November 18, 2004 3:32 PM


Ambra,

Rod is entirely correct. I was going to recommend mt-blacklist myself. I'm very happy with it. If you can't hook up with Rod, get with me, or Dean Esmay, or probably anyone else on your bloglist who uses MT, to help you install it. Probably all of us use it. It really isn't that hard to install.

BTW, how do you like MT 3.x? Being both paranoid and conservative, I've been sticking with 2.6x myself. :)

Posted by: Casey Tompkins at November 19, 2004 9:57 PM