The incessant spam in my comments have pissed me off too many times to continue doing nothing. Tolerating the drug advertisements wasn't so bad, but the scoundrel(s) peppering my blog with rape, bestiality, and other nasty spam have changed my tolerance levels.
As a result, I will be backing up what I have in preparation for an upgrade to Moveable Type 2.64. The newer version will enable me to install the MT-Blacklist hack and hopefully get a grip on the majority of these bastards. In addition, I plan on installing James Seng's Security Code hack so as to require a human to read a captcha and type it in before a comment can be posted. Hopefully the inclusion of these two technologies will wipe out most or all of the crap that spammers keep sending my way.
I don't have Net access at home (getting tired of saying this) so everything will have to be done behind my employer's firewall unless I can find a friend with broadband Net access. I'll be offline for a few days until I'm finished or unless something truly outrageous crosses my path.
UPDATE(6/10/2004 8:35am)
I think the transition to version 2.661 is successful. I skipped over 2.64 when I found a place to download MT-2.661-upgrade.tar.gz, the proper upgrade version file. The blacklist and captcha installs are scheduled for tonight.
UPDATE(9:50pm)
The captcha didn't install properly so there'll be another attempt this weekend. No new posts until then. Dammit.
UPDATE(6/11/2004 9:50pm)
Gawddamn this. Comments are seemingly screwed and I'm not going to fuck with them any longer.
I'm not tinkering with this for a few more days. Can't even get a simple renaming of mt-comments.cgi complete. I want people to be able to comment on this blog but I cannot allow spammers to utterly ruin the content in the process.
Until I get back, pay very close attention to this Billy Beck post. Clarity, purposeful, concrete...they don't begin to describe the content. It matches my mood at the moment as well.
UPDATE(6/18/2004 5:00pm)
Comments have been reopened for the moment.
UPDATE(7/14/2004 11:13pm)
MT-Blacklist is installed. Hopefully it'll work.
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Hi, I'm looking for MT-2.661 upgrade version. Would you still have your copy of tar.gz lying around? Or the .zip version? Would appreciate it if you could mail it to me. Thanks.
Posted by: cal on July 7, 2004 11:59 AMThe file should be on the way. Good luck.
Posted by: Drizz on July 7, 2004 12:50 PMi too would like the mt-2.661-upgrade .tar.gz or .zip if you still have it handy. my googling isnt so successful thus far. thanks!
Posted by: pthree on July 29, 2004 11:50 AMnever mind, i found it here: ftp://ftp.thelight.org.uk/linux/software/movabletype/MT-2.661-upgrade.tar.gz
thanks anyway, hopefully this will save you having to send it to more people.
Travels
Posted by: Joe Smith on August 7, 2005 05:35 AM