Spam: good with rice, bad with blogs
Spambots have gotten better at spamming. They used to just infiltrate my comment sections. I stopped that thanks to the Akismet Bayesian comment filter plugin. Recently they started spamming up my Shout Outs box, making it totally useless. Freaks. Well, I came across the Bad Behavior HTTP request message filter. Hopefully that’ll make my ever-popular Shout Outs feature happy again.
In other news…. there has been no other news, hence not much posting lately. Nonetheless, I urge you to keep your brain tuned exclusively to this station.
Update (2006-07-19T19:31:42): OK, by the time I finished editing this post originally, I had received 8 spam. ARGH.
Update (2006-07-20T02:09:53): OK, the feature has been reinstated. Added a one-link limit to the code. Seems to be holding up for now. One more thing, I just realized I should have named this post Spam: good with rice, bad with brains. Man, what a wasted opportunity.
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Commenting options at bottom.I was also spamming the Shout Outs feature. Sorry.
Summer Recipe:
Spambled Eggs
1 Spam
1 Egg
Crack egg on Spam.
Serves 2-4 people.
I like the sound of that. For an exotic twist, you can make it Spambled Brains. Actually that’s basically what the Shout Outs feature turned into.
mmmm…. spam.
That Jalenack’s shoutbox? You should contact him about making it work with Bad Behavior. As far as I know it does not.
You are right. I ended up removing Bad Behavior shortly after I installed it. From the number of complaints on the Jalenack blog about spam on the shoutbox/wordspew thing, I don’t know if he cares much to address that problem. That said, I hope to add some simple captcha to mine soon.