Comments on: The Good Old Days http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:03:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22364 Kelson Wed, 30 May 2007 20:36:48 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22364 It's a known problem with the cache plugin I'm using. Sometimes it'll include a commenter's info when it saves the most recent version of the page. It normally doesn't cause problems because I don't get very many actual comments. I guess I may as well turn it off and see how well the site manages. It’s a known problem with the cache plugin I’m using. Sometimes it’ll include a commenter’s info when it saves the most recent version of the page. It normally doesn’t cause problems because I don’t get very many actual comments. I guess I may as well turn it off and see how well the site manages.

]]> By: West http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22362 West Wed, 30 May 2007 19:56:46 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22362 Scary. Sometimes, it feels kinda good to be a nobody in the online world. The alternative sounds like a lot to worry about. (Sorry. I dunno why it put her name in that field.) Scary. Sometimes, it feels kinda good to be a nobody in the online world. The alternative sounds like a lot to worry about.

(Sorry. I dunno why it put her name in that field.)

]]> By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22355 Kelson Wed, 30 May 2007 16:49:28 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22355 I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but you're probably right. Combine it with the sheer size of the archive---we've been at this for 4½ years, and the dashboard says we're up to 1,310 posts---and even a single spam run, if they're being thorough, can get pretty big. On the plus side, that figure for Spam Karma seems to be a total since first installing it, which would go back maybe two years. And it turns out those 2900 hits blocked by Bad Behavior are mostly probes by spambots looking for targets. "Only" about 700 were actual comment attempts, and another 500 were trackback attempts that probably would have been blocked anyway, once WordPress checked the remote sites for links to the posts. I hadn’t thought of it in those terms, but you’re probably right. Combine it with the sheer size of the archive—we’ve been at this for 4½ years, and the dashboard says we’re up to 1,310 posts—and even a single spam run, if they’re being thorough, can get pretty big.

On the plus side, that figure for Spam Karma seems to be a total since first installing it, which would go back maybe two years. And it turns out those 2900 hits blocked by Bad Behavior are mostly probes by spambots looking for targets. “Only” about 700 were actual comment attempts, and another 500 were trackback attempts that probably would have been blocked anyway, once WordPress checked the remote sites for links to the posts.

]]> By: West http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22354 West Wed, 30 May 2007 15:22:19 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/05/29/pre-spam/#comment-22354 wow I dunno a whole lot about that kind of thing, but I'd guess the chain of related/connected sites is a reason you're such a target. Not saying that's a particularly useful observation, even if it's true, but I guess I'm wondering "out loud." wow

I dunno a whole lot about that kind of thing, but I’d guess the chain of related/connected sites is a reason you’re such a target.

Not saying that’s a particularly useful observation, even if it’s true, but I guess I’m wondering “out loud.”

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