The spamming blog bots have won. I've gotten 85 spam replies on my weblog today, and the day isn't even over. Not only are they annoying, but I have to MANUALLY DELETE EVERY GOD-DAMNED SPAM. In case you're wondering, deleting 85 of them will probably take a good 15 minutes of steady clicking and waiting for the program to update. I've come to hate Movable Type because of things like that.
That stupid blacklist program wouldn't work and I can't make heads or tails out of Thomas's suggestion (especially when I looked at his page and couldn't see how he'd made any changes). Travholt's suggestion is a couple years old and apparently meant for an older version of Movable Type, David's suggestion would require paying for the latest version of Movable type, and my mom's suggestion made no sense to me and is meant for some other program.
So, unless I find some other way of fixing it, I'm going to run a full back-up and delete my blog. I only post stupid crap and my main page hasn't been updated since May, so why the hell do I have a blog, anyway?
Help!! My blog is getting spammed and a program that looked really cool is giving me an error -- even after I went over the instructions three times.
If I can't figure out a way to stop the spam, I'm going to have to close off all comments, which will basically make this blog pointless and probably make me just close it completely. I can't deal with 30 spam comments a day and I will not maintain a Web site where people can post links to obscenity.
So, if anyone has any possible solutions, please let me know.
So, after a five-month trial and a stupid amount of press coverage, Scott Peterson's future is in the hands of 12 jurors who are trying to decide whether he murdered his wife and their unborn son. Several attorneys -- who've apparently had nothing better to do but stand around outside the courthouse and provide oh-so-clever insight to the media crews -- predicted when deliberations would conclude. (Scroll to the very bottom to see that part, listed in a separate box.) What confuses things, though, is that the newspaper didn't mention which Wednesday they were referring to. If they meant yesterday, then two of the three attorneys are already wrong.
I predict that the jury will reach verdicts by the end of the week. The jury is sequestered, and I doubt they want to spend their weekend under guard and locked away with one another. It's one thing to go to court on weekdays while your job continues to pay you, but it's another thing to give up a weekend. If that doesn't happen, though, then I think deliberations will take most of next week and end in a hung jury and mistrial.
I had really hoped the verdicts would come in on Tuesday, when all the media people had better things to do, like report on the election. Oh well.
Blog bots win
The spamming blog bots have won. I've gotten 85 spam replies on my weblog today, and the day isn't even over. Not only are they annoying, but I have to MANUALLY DELETE EVERY GOD-DAMNED SPAM. In case you're wondering, deleting 85 of them will probably take a good 15 minutes of steady clicking and waiting for the program to update. I've come to hate Movable Type because of things like that.That stupid blacklist program wouldn't work and I can't make heads or tails out of Thomas's suggestion (especially when I looked at his page and couldn't see how he'd made any changes). Travholt's suggestion is a couple years old and apparently meant for an older version of Movable Type, David's suggestion would require paying for the latest version of Movable type, and my mom's suggestion made no sense to me and is meant for some other program.
So, unless I find some other way of fixing it, I'm going to run a full back-up and delete my blog. I only post stupid crap and my main page hasn't been updated since May, so why the hell do I have a blog, anyway?
Posted by Layla at 6:45 PM, November 21, 2004. Comments (0)