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December 27, 2004

Upgraded Blog to Mt 3.14

By QBlog in

I just upgraded this blog to Movable Type 3.14. I'd planned to do this for a while but was forced to when my MT-Blacklist crapped out this weekend. Without the Blacklist I received roughly 600 comment spams in the last 48 hours.

More details to come.

UPDATE
And here are those promised details. The Movable Type upgrade went smoothly and I love the new features. If you're running an older version of MT to power your blog, I encourage you to upgrade soon. I bought the Unlimited Personal Edition that sells for $99.95 but with various discounts it cost me about $18. Sweet.

The thing I need to think about is whether or not I should enable the comment authentification feature. This feature requires all commenters to register with the free TypeKey service before commenting. The great thing about this feature is it will effectively eliminate all comment spam while also permanently banning comment flamers. However, I hesitate to activate this feature because I personally hate being asked to register with some service before commenting and I don't want to push that annoyance onto the site visitors.

And so, I must make a decision. And for now my decision is to trust in the MT-Blacklist and hope it will keep my comments spam-free. Turns out, the latest version is 2.03 Beta and I was running version 1.6 something. Not good. It worked for me until this weekend but now I'm back in action and killing comment spam dead.

And if you are reading this wondering what the heck this "comment spam" is all about then check out Adam Kalsy's Comment Spam Manifesto. It gives a brief overview of what blog owners like me deal with on a daily basis.

Comment Spammers Must Die. Die Spammers, Die. No MERCY!

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Spammers, hackers, die, all die. Any one who makes the web experience repulsive including search engine overloading deserves a cyber death.

Oh wait, did I went too far? I'm sure 'they' won't understnad :o)

Posted by: Imran Aziz | December 27, 2004 11:23 PM





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