Away for the weekend

In case you didn’t notice, I haven’t been online at all this weekend, since we were camping at Casitas. We went to the water park yesterday, and I got sunburned pretty bad.

Hopefully, you all got a good laugh out of the spam that slipped through the filters while I was away. The fact that that still happens (even though less than one percent makes it through) has often made me think about working on a spam prevention plugin again, but I probably won’t be doing it anytime soon.

16 Comments

  1. Dan
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Or you could just use one that already works.

  2. Posted July 24, 2005 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

    I’m using the one you recommended; it doesn’t catch everything. If I do my own, I will probably modify that one.

  3. michel
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 9:56 pm | Permalink

    There’s something wrong about that palm tree in the photo.

  4. Posted July 25, 2005 at 12:22 pm | Permalink

    Your using the blacklist program?

    Do you update the blacklist?

  5. Posted July 25, 2005 at 12:23 pm | Permalink

    Or you could update the blacklist yourself.

  6. Posted July 25, 2005 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    Yes to both. I don’t like the way it gathers data from the existing moderated spam to add to the blacklist; there are a few things wrong with it logically. It does catch a lot of stuff (around 95%), but it’s definitely not perfect. I think just because I get a lot of spam, I’m kind of pushing its limits.

    If I did anything on this, it would just be improving the ways that you can manage and update the blacklist.

  7. ma ma j
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

    what’s wrong with the palm tree?

  8. michel
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 8:41 pm | Permalink

    The palm tree is like a visual non-sequitur in the presence of oak and forest.

  9. Posted July 25, 2005 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

    Just one of the many reasons why Ventura is one of the greatest places on earth to live.

  10. nstryker
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    one of the?

  11. michel
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 11:25 pm | Permalink

    so true.

  12. Posted July 25, 2005 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

    Of course, between us, we know it’s the best, but I didn’t want to offend and/or provoke envy in the other readers out there.

  13. Dave Z
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

    JB & Martha, Katie enjoyed running into you at the water park.

  14. Martha
    Posted July 27, 2005 at 6:51 am | Permalink

    Yep…looked like they were having fun…as we were. What a cutie Lexi is!

  15. Posted August 2, 2005 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    447 Comments in moderation. Your screwed.

  16. Posted August 2, 2005 at 10:10 am | Permalink

    Not really. By the way, those are just the ones that the blacklist didn’t catch. The only reason I’m leaving them moderated is because eventually I am going to improve the blacklist plugin’s code for automatically updating the blacklist based on the contents of comments which are in moderation (I know it does this now but not very well), and so I want a whole bunch in there to work with so I can test it.

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