Tag Archives: spam protection

JT Evening News-7th Edition

After a rather long absence, once again we are here with yet another edition of the JT Evening News (published whenever I feel like it) covering what kind of nonsense I’ve been up to with the site. So without further ado…
***************
MyBlogLog Gets a New Widget and so do I

MyBlogLog has a new "Recent Readers" widget [...] Read more »

Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...] Read more »

Comments not showing up immediately?

If anyone finds their comment not showing up right away it’s just Spam Karma 2 doing it’s job. SK2 is one powerful spam blocker with many options and I might have to do some tweaking here and there. As it stands now it looks like anyone who leaves a comment on a post that Spam [...] Read more »

Server Problems-> Akismet

Here’s the probable answer to the Akismet problems we’ve been experiencing–server problems. Once they get moved over to the new servers, I’ll be able to use both Spam Karma 2 and Akismet 2.0 plugins to stop these miserable spammers and get back to what I do best with this blog. Rambling around.
Good work [...] Read more »

Traded Aksimet for Spam Karma 2

So my faithful spam eating Akismet plugin has apparently lost it’s mind and is voraciously eating all the suspected spam comments posted to my blog and no longer holding them in it’s queue for myself to moderate. After all, a few of these past-captured suspects were actual valid comments. Not many but even one valid [...] Read more »

I Hate Spam!!!

You know, there’s enough things that you have to deal with on a day to day basis that will hold you up in one way, shape, form or another without having to deal with all those idiots out there smothering me with spam when I get home from work.
In the beginning it was just email. [...] Read more »

Windows One Care Live

I came across an article this morning on the Mercury News website about the new so called “automatic” internet security suites coming out such MS’s One Care Live service and Symantec’s future Norton 360 etc etc. I like the analogy the author uses at the beginning of the article:

You’d sign up with World’s Worst Burglar [...] Read more »