December 09, 2003
Thank you, MT-Blacklist!
NOTE: You have probably found this blog through a Search Engine. This blog
has switched from Movable Type to WordPress. Unfortunately, I am not able to offer
an easy redirect. For a while, I will keep the original posts up, but you CANNOT LEAVE
COMMENTS from these archive pages. To leave a comment, COPY the title of this post,
follow this link to the new site, and paste the title into the SEARCH window.
You will be able to leave a comment on the new blog page. Thanks!
As I just noted, I got spammed 50 times by some jerk--mass blog comment spam, my first time. Unfortunately, in Movable Type--the software that runs this blog--to delete a comments you have to click, wait, click, wait, click, click and click again just to delete one comment. There is no batch-deletion built in.
Enter MT-Blacklist, a freeware plugin made by Jay Allen. It not only detects and blocks likely spam, but it allows for just the mass-deletion I was looking for. Just upload three files to the directories noted in the ReadMe file, Chmod the permissions to 755, go to the mt-blacklist.cgi file, and presto, you're golden. Instead of spending an hour deleting the slimy spam droppings defacing my site, I zapped them all in a few seconds.
Thank you, Mr. Allen!
