September 10, 2004

Chicago

Alright, I guess by now everyone has guessed this bigger city I've been referring to is--Chicago. Chicago is a great city, especially in summer. And I've only recently discovered its beauty.

Today's Friday, and I'm back in Chicago again. Wife is too tired from working to do anything other than sleep after dinner (talk about life of a consultant!). And that left me with the empty living room with a notebook on top of my lap, facing the well-lit skyscrapers out of the windows, blogging. The small city where I was earlier today (I'm going to keep this one secret for now) seems so far.

On a side note, these two days this site has been spammed pretty bad--I got about 10 junk postings every day. Extremely annoying. The originating IP address kept changing. All I could do was deleting each post individually and banning each individual IP. Does anyone know how to block this? I need your help.

Posted by Shamu at September 10, 2004 10:16 PM
Comments

I assume you mean the spamming in your comment section? Here are a few ways that have helped me:

1. Once the blog entry is off this main page, you can go in MT to close the comment section. That way it will keep the existing comments but preventing any future comments. I try to do this once a month at least.

2. Ask your webadmin to remove your page from googlebot indexing. That way it is less likely for spammers to find your url.

3. There is a mysql (i assume paowang mt instance is using mysql?) script that can be run to close all comments earlier than certain dates. Problem with you guys is everyone on paowang is probably using the same db instance. Unless everyone agrees to this practice, you might not be able to convince everyone to adopt this script. Since the total number of your blogs are still in a manageable size, you probably can do it manually, one at a time.

GOod luck!

Posted by: Jean at September 11, 2004 12:08 PM

Thanks Jean. It's a pain to close comments on each old post!! Admin please check your email!

Posted by: shamu at September 12, 2004 01:14 PM

Thansk Brian. I disabled the comments for all the entries older than a month. That seemed to work, for now. Let's see if this works long term.

Posted by: shamu at September 14, 2004 03:51 PM