Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal

February 21, 2005

Rhetorica update

I have disabled the Blacklist plugin for MovableType. For at least the next few days, all commenters must register with TypeKey.

Rhetorica gets hit with about 1 spam attempt per second. At this rate, the Blacklist log fills to the point of choking and cannot be cleared. I am working on a solution.

Posted by acline | February 21, 2005 | Posted in: Main | Comments (5)

5 Responses

  1. rgrafton  February 21st, 2005 at 2:05 pm

    Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

  2. rgrafton  February 21st, 2005 at 2:11 pm

    OK, I kept getting an error message on another comment, and I’m checking to see if Blacklist was rejecting me or my comment (which I attempted to fix, but obviously not to Blacklist’s satisfaction!).

  3. acline  February 21st, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    I’ve erased Blacklist, so you should not encounter problems because of it. I can’t say that there won’t be problems caused by something else :-)

  4. Bunker  February 21st, 2005 at 3:13 pm

    I’m beginning to get trackback spam now (in WP). They waste no time!

  5. acline  February 21st, 2005 at 4:16 pm

    B- I’ve deleted Blacklist and implemented a perl script that “hides” the trackback URLs from spiders. I’d like to get BL back, but I’ve screwed something up bigtime :-) Geez.