BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. In the last few weeks, I’ve been hit not only by comment spammers but a new player who doesn’t seem to like our party: the crapflooders, people who use automated applications (you may have heard of the program called “MTFlood” or some variation) to literally flood comments or trackbacks. At […]
With the help of some very good people, I have been able to re-enable both trackbacks and comments here at Burningbird. Not only this, but later today I will have full and detailed instructions how you can also achieve this better protected state, as well as some patch files that will merge code from several […]
A long time ago I started work on a concept called threadneedle, a way to track threads of communication through weblogging. However, when Movable Type introduced the concept of Trackback, I dropped work on Threadneedle because Trackback provided much of the functionality I was hoping for from the original concept. I loved Trackback. Now when you […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote in a previous post, To Keep Burningbird or Not: One issue I’ve been debating off and of about with myself is whether to keep the Burningbird weblog. I’ve splintered off so many interests into different weblogs, and the main reason I do so is there is there is an […]
I am being deliberately and systematically attacked through my comments in order to force them off. Since I have no effective comment management, and no known comment spam technique will work, no not even mt-blacklist with this one, I have no choice but to turn off comments. This attack is from the kiddie script that […]