Moving to Freedom: spam

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28 October 2007

Turning off trackbacks/pingbacks…

I don’t get a lot of legitimate trackbacks, but lately I’m getting an annoying amount of spambacks, so I’m turning them off for now. If you’re one of the few kind folks who occasionally point my way (I’m looking at you, Open Source Community) :-), please consider a “manual” ping in comments.

On the other hand, I’m getting almost no comment spam, which I credit to the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin, previously mentioned in a post about my WordPress Plugin Binge last month.

Bad Behavior is another good tool and currently stops a couple of thousand access attempts per week. Akismet is super, but anything that it catches is something I then have to deal with. I’m not getting all that many spam trackbacks, but the …

by Scott Carpenter on 28 October 2007 at 9:49 pm
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27 January 2007

Six Month Anniversary and Spam Milestone

“Moving to Freedom” is six months old! I haven’t made a huge amount of progress on my goal of moving to free software, but this blog has definitely helped keep my mind on it, and I think I’m going to make it eventually.

The writing of the blog takes a lot of time that could be spent on *doing* free software, but I like it. I’ve gone from craving thousands of readers and attention to just enjoying keeping this thing for what it is: a public journal of my thoughts and efforts on free software and related topics. And sometimes un-related topics.

So, thank you, to all my loyal readers. I hope to still be here in another six months. Let’s take a look at some visitor numbers from the first half year and …

by Scott Carpenter on 27 January 2007 at 8:40 pm
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