Alphecca

Blogging and "code" is a foreign language to me. On the occasions that I troll and post I did see only one site that was blasted with spam, I was amazed at how many entries were in that blog/comments. I think the guy "Dean" from "DeansWorld" left a message for the blogger to contact him with help for the spam problem.

You may even consider my post to be spam? I'll probably never know though because I'm trolling a list of blogs as always so I rarely return to read comments after my comment/post.

Now this;

http://instapundit.com/archives/019440.php

November 25, 2004
HELPING THE TROOPS: Reader Ron Ford sends this very comprehensive list of support-the-troops websites --

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/The_Dishonest_Reporting_Awards_2004.asp

The Dishonest Awards.

As long you you keep an RSS a feed I will continue reading!
Otherwise I will visit as Say Uncle, Kim, Geekwitha.45, or some other 2A supporter links ya.

Oh, I just remembered seeing a "comment box" on another blog. So without email a comment could be sent to the blogger for consideration without being posted. I don't know if this is technically possible for you or not. Here's the website that has it, scroll way down and find it on the right hand side;

http://www.rogerlsimon.com/

Andrea Harris has it set up so comments do not get posted until she reviews them - lots of work but she does it.

Bill McCabe has word filters that keep out much of the spam (e.g., "hold'em" and certain pornography-related words cannot be posted). (BTW, Bill has a new toy).

Other than that, I am utterly ignorant of such things. We just try to close comment threads older than about a week. It helps.

With a combination of Fetch and BBEdit I was able to download all the archive folders, batch find and replace, and get the sitemeter code on each archive this morning. It's clumsy but until I discover how to design a single-entry template that inserts the site meter, I guess this will have to do.

So for the moment... I'll stay with MT. I was frustrated yesterday by a sudden spam attack but in general the MT Blacklist and another plug-in that closes comments after two weeks has worked fairly well.

Here's an article that may have some useful information

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/17/hosts_disable_movable_type_as_comment_spam_slows_servers.html

My sympathies, Jeff. I've shut down comments until I can get a Turing test set up. I've thought a time or two about going to different software, but I'm just not up for a conversion. But, FWIW, WordPress has comment moderation. I don't how easy/hard it is to customize.

Hand-coding a blog seems like a lot of work to me, unless you got some really cool batch-mode utilities to deal with it. Sounds as if you have some. But even so, I thought about setting something like that up myself, before I settled on using blogware, and it was more work than I wanted to do.

Don't do it, Jeff!

I maintained a blog-like site for years using hand-coding, and now that I've used blogging software I'd never go back. Besides comments, you lose automated archiving, automatic permalinks, and trackbacks.

Beyond that, not using templates is crazy. Hand-coding everything means that you'll rarely update the look of the site because it's too much darned work.

For spam, install MT-Blacklist if you haven't already, and try some of the advice on this page. I've done steps 1-4 and it seems to have made a difference.

Jeff,

Add your sitemeter code to your "Individual Entry Archive" template. That will cause the sitemeter stuff to appear on every entry in your MT archives after you do a Rebuild in Moveable Type.

If you hand-edit your archives, any manual changes you made will be lost when you do a rebuild. So it's best to do these things in the templates.

--Aubrey

I don't have an "individual entry archive" template. Help, someone, help!

Once again, Aubrey Turner has come to my rescue and fixed things. Thank you Aubrey. It's good to have a super-geek as a friend...And one who likes guns, to boot!

good point! nice site too! wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!