Comments on: Reunited - and it feels so good! http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/ Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:13:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Christy http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4555 Christy Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:33:33 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4555 Alright, you two - play nice while I'm away! LOL!! MommaCat/Grandmeow Alright, you two - play nice while I’m away! LOL!!

MommaCat/Grandmeow

]]> By: Jerry Hollombe http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4548 Jerry Hollombe Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:56:30 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4548 Shannon said: \"I don\\\\\\’t have time to add a captcha to everyone\\\\\\’s blog that I maintain for free. Perhaps you\\\\\\’d like to volunteer to help Mom out with her website? ;-)\" As long as it\'s just a little help and advice, sure, but I don\'t think she can afford my full-time professional rates, even with the friends-and-family discount. Note that The Garret\'s captcha isn\'t a system that changes the code every time. The site doesn\'t get enough traffic to justify that. A simple code image that never changes is sufficient to block the run of the mill spambots. There\'s nothing critical on the site to attract anything more sophisticated. (Compare to the captcha I built for Free Space Shot that uses multiple images, multiple choice questions in multiple languages, keeps track of wrong answers, blocks abused passwords, has it\'s own database maintenance page, etc. But they\'re running a contest with serious prizes.) Shannon said:

\”I don\\\\\\’t have time to add a captcha to everyone\\\\\\’s blog that I maintain for free. Perhaps you\\\\\\’d like to volunteer to help Mom out with her website? ;-)\”

As long as it\’s just a little help and advice, sure, but I don\’t think she can afford my full-time professional rates, even with the friends-and-family discount.

Note that The Garret\’s captcha isn\’t a system that changes the code every time. The site doesn\’t get enough traffic to justify that. A simple code image that never changes is sufficient to block the run of the mill spambots. There\’s nothing critical on the site to attract anything more sophisticated. (Compare to the captcha I built for Free Space Shot that uses multiple images, multiple choice questions in multiple languages, keeps track of wrong answers, blocks abused passwords, has it\’s own database maintenance page, etc. But they\’re running a contest with serious prizes.)

]]> By: Shannon http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4541 Shannon Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:37:33 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4541 Hmm... I\'ll check it out. For one thing, her WordPress installation needs to be updated to the latest version. I don\'t have time to add a captcha to everyone\'s blog that I maintain for free. Perhaps you\'d like to volunteer to help Mom out with her website? ;-) Hmm… I\’ll check it out. For one thing, her WordPress installation needs to be updated to the latest version.

I don\’t have time to add a captcha to everyone\’s blog that I maintain for free. Perhaps you\’d like to volunteer to help Mom out with her website? ;-)

]]> By: Jerry Hollombe http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4533 Jerry Hollombe Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:00:10 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4533 But ... but ... but ... ... I wasn't putting the URL in the comments! I was only putting it in the "Website" field of the "Leave a Reply" form, which WordPress asks for fercryinoutloud. Oh well. BTW, I solved the spam problem in The Garret's guest book by requiring posters to enter a simple authorization code displayed as a graphic so the spambots can't read it. Worked like a charm. Spam postings instantly went from several per day to practically nil. But … but … but …

… I wasn’t putting the URL in the comments! I was only putting it in the “Website” field of the “Leave a Reply” form, which WordPress asks for fercryinoutloud. Oh well.

BTW, I solved the spam problem in The Garret’s guest book by requiring posters to enter a simple authorization code displayed as a graphic so the spambots can’t read it. Worked like a charm. Spam postings instantly went from several per day to practically nil.

]]> By: Shannon http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4514 Shannon Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:04:16 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4514 It\'s the spam block protections -- spammers like to include email addresses, URLs/links, etc. and thus those are often viewed by automated spam protection routines as spam. Someone clicking on your name will get to your website, so it\'s not lost info it\'s just not something that WordPress (the blog/CMS software running here) wants to see in comments. It\’s the spam block protections — spammers like to include email addresses, URLs/links, etc. and thus those are often viewed by automated spam protection routines as spam.

Someone clicking on your name will get to your website, so it\’s not lost info it\’s just not something that WordPress (the blog/CMS software running here) wants to see in comments.

]]> By: Jerry Hollombe http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4133 Jerry Hollombe Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:23:17 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4133 AHA! That's it! For some reason, your blog system doesn't like The Garret's URL. Probably thinks the .info domain automatically qualifies it as spam. Oh well. Now we know. AHA! That’s it! For some reason, your blog system doesn’t like The Garret’s URL. Probably thinks the .info domain automatically qualifies it as spam. Oh well.

Now we know.

]]> By: Jerry Hollombe http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4132 Jerry Hollombe Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:21:38 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4132 Hmmm ... so it's the web site the system doesn't like? Hmmm … so it’s the web site the system doesn’t like?

]]> By: Jerry Hollombe http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4130 Jerry Hollombe Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:20:49 +0000 http://blackburndigest.com/72/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/#comment-4130 Glad to hear it wasn't a cracked block, anyway. (Leaving off the website entry. Let's see if this one gets through.) Glad to hear it wasn’t a cracked block, anyway.

(Leaving off the website entry. Let’s see if this one gets through.)

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