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May 24, 2003

Site News

I'm glad this is running on a Mac!

There was an attack against the site early this morning (local) time but it appears to have failed (other than creating a Denial of Service) for a short period. As part of the checking and cleanup, I have installed formmail honeypot traps and I will be posting details (including mailing address) of any idiots who try to use it. With any luck their emails will be picked up by the spiders and someone will send spam to them :lol.

In the meantime, I have deleted some inappropriate comments that were posted around the same time and IP banned the relevant addresses. If you are unable to access the site, then sorry about that but you need to be more careful!

I have also disallowed annonymous comments. You will now need to suppy a URL or email address to post comments.

Posted by Ozguru at May 24, 2003 07:05 AM

Comments

Of course if your IP is blocked you can't read this notice to tell you that your IP is blocked because your IP is blocked. And I guess that means you can't read this comment about the article that your IP is blocked ...:rofl.

Posted by: Ozguru at May 24, 2003 07:05 AM

This is, as far as I can tell, the first time I mentioned comment spam. Of course, since then the situation has got a lot worse to the extent that my IP ban list has about 40 entries on it and I am planning to introduce the blacklist module. If that doesn't help, the next thing will be to introduce some kind of verification engine for each comment. By the way, in case you hadn't realised it - the comment spammers are the reason why you can't add comments to the archive articles. If you really want to say something but are frustrated about the comments, chuck me an email (gdaymate AT internode DOT on DOT net) and I can either post the comment for you or turn comments on long enough for you to post. So there! No excuses!

Posted by: Ozguru at May 24, 2003 07:05 AM