February 02, 2004
Technical notice
This site has recently been bombed by drug ad spam. What happens is some spammer is posting the same ad in the comments section of each post on this site. Obviously, they have some evil auto-posting device that allows them to commit this terrible act. Please be assured that we have our best minds working on the problem. (In other words, I basically sent Mark an email asking him what to do.) If any tech-oriented people out there have any ideas on how to prevent this, we would sure appreciate any input.
Posted by peter at February 2, 2004 03:53 PMthis was sort of a known problem with MT users a ways back. You can see some info here http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ and in general the MT web site has news about it as well. You are not alone!
Posted by: jessamyn at February 5, 2004 03:44 PMHi Jessamyn,
Thanks for responding to the distress call! Hope you guys are doing well down south there.
Thanks for the tip. It turns out that the folks over at Moveable Type are coming out with a new version soon that will make it harder, but not impossible, to spam bomb blogs. My friend Mark, who admins the server hosting this site, will probably help me update once the new version is out.
Posted by: peter at February 8, 2004 07:59 PM