Just wanted to let you know I'm still alive, and not to be alarmed by the lack of posts on the site. I've been at work, oh, 11 hours already today, and haven't quite finished up. Not a lot of time to blog, there is.
Also, don't be alarmed by the sudden misfunctions of the comments, either. Right now, when I barely have time to link to the briefest of Fark articles, I've been getting hammered by the nastiest, vilest spammers possible, to the tune of 750+ spammed comments a day. The URLs and keywords keep shifting and permutating through various spellings of gross and illegal acts, so it would take constant vigilance to keep MT Blacklist on top of it. And I don't have that right now.
So, much as I love to read the comments and the interplay amongst my visitors, I've had to briefly disable comment functionality (it will appear to you like the comments, and comment functionality, are still there, but if you try to click on the comments link, you'll get an error). Even if I hadn't thought this was the best thing to do, this email from my hosting company would have spurred me to action:
Your site was under attack by numerous "spammers" who left links to porn sites in the comments they left on your blog...There were so many that it increased the load on the server to an unacceptable level. You should consider upgrading to the latest version of Moveable Type, which prevents this kind of spamming.
So I'll upgrade. And hopefully will have comments back someday. And if you have something you really want to say, and want everyone to know, email me, and I'll attach it as an update on the end of the post in question (a la Instapundit).
Posted by kswygert at June 29, 2004 06:09 AM