I have finally given in and installed Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist. The installation was painless and I have to agree with Elly and KC that it’s a great tool. I know that apparently it will be superseded by MT 3.0, but the spamming was annoying me enough that I thought I should install it anyway. I’m not sold on this new-fangled typekey idea anyway.
Hopefully this will now mean that I get more time to blog. But I wouldn’t count on it. Incidentally, a side effect of Google seeing all and never forgetting is that not only your own life is immortalized, but also references to others in your life. Which, presumably, is why despite finding the site using my name, a certain old “acquaintance” spent a while searching for her own name or possible references to her last week. Looking through the logs it amused me greatly. I’d serve up the search queries, except that it would return results next time she stops by 😉
So for now I’ll leave you with some random search strings that have brought people to this site in the last month:
* importance of training
* bootable distros
* outsourcing and effect on programmers
* design by committee
* firefox icon
* linux cd-bootable
* meaning of gay persecution
* software usability cartoon
* apple case mods
* bootable distros
* cd bootable linux
* cthulhu chick track
* dorkspotter
* effect of outsourcing programmers
* for someone who did research on gay rights
* interesting things
* language barrier and outsourcing
* meri fanfic
* microsoft employ
I love how random this is. And, for the record, Micro$oft don’t employ me and probably never will
Comments (6) Permalink
March 29th, 2004 at 6:21 PM
You listed bootable distros twice….
My site gets repeated hits from people looking for “thompson’s TV kansas”….. that and “jennifer garner” – I only mentioned her once!!!
March 29th, 2004 at 7:00 PM
For me MT-Blacklist is the one essential MT plug-in. With over 2,000 entries that reference sexuality it gets steady employment on my site. The coming of user authentication means I’ll probably lose most of my comments.
Early on I posted funny, weird search referral keyphrases every Sunday. They almost all involved the most famous of three letter words and after about six months it palled.
March 30th, 2004 at 9:50 PM
I noticed a huge decrease in comment spam when I changed the names of the comment script. Simple as can be–move the files on disk, and change variables mt.cgi to point to the new name.
I can tell the spammers are still trying, however, because the old script names are showing up in my log files.
I checked out the MT-Blacklist site, and it’s not clear to me what MT-Blacklist does that changing the comments cgi location doesn’t.
March 30th, 2004 at 9:53 PM
Er… I meant edit mt.cfg (not mt.cgi) to point to the new names. Also, I got this idea from Dion (http://www.almaer.com/blog/archives/000071.html).
April 21st, 2004 at 6:52 AM
Ah, the irony of the previous comment. Rich, I tell you.
April 21st, 2004 at 10:35 AM
LOL — I’m going to have to leave it there now, else yours won’t make sense Dan!
Ah well 😉