Serious anti-spam
If any of your feed readers get weird results accessing this blog in the next wee while, can you let me know? I’ve installed some heavy-duty anti-spam stuff on the blog to cut down on comment/trackback spam and site scraping.
14 Responses to “Serious anti-spam”
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Tony Kiernan on March 13th, 2008
Erm, I wasn’t getting any feed (yesterday and today) but now it’s back. If that’s any help.
Grosie on March 13th, 2008
After all posts on the feed, there is a small image saying:
“ANTILEECH”
Is this something wrong, or the anti-spam stuff?
Gary on March 13th, 2008
Antileech is one of the plugins – it collects user agent strings (via the image, I think), and you can then specify which ones get fake content. Haven’t activated that bit of it yet. It’s basically an anti-scraper thing.
Tony, the site was broken for a lot of yesterday – hosting firm upgrading their servers with the usual disastrous consequences – but I’m told it’s okay now.
Stephen on March 13th, 2008
Feed?
Gary on March 13th, 2008
Are you old-school, reading blogs on the actual web?
Squander Two on March 14th, 2008
I am. Don’t like RSS. I can see its advantages, but they ain’t for me.
Gary on March 14th, 2008
I’d never get anything read if it weren’t for RSS. Not the sexiest tech ever invented but by god, it’s one of the most useful.
Squander Two on March 14th, 2008
I just like all the pretty colours. For me, design is an indispensible part of the Web.
Thing is, with cheap bandwidth and tabbed browsers, why doesn’t someone combine the two? You could have a single browser window sitting in the background with all the latest posts from wherever in it. I’d love that.
Gary on March 15th, 2008
There’s a firefox extension that does that – Sage. Basically an in-browser RSS reader, and a very good one at that.
Squander Two on March 16th, 2008
Oh, cool. I might try it. Thanks.
tm on March 16th, 2008
Is there a URL for that or is it available on the Mozilla add-ons page?
The main reason I avoid RSS is my determination not to have to run yet another piece of software…
tm on March 16th, 2008
never mind, found it..
Gary on March 16th, 2008
If you use multiple computers, I’d strongly recommend a web-based RSS reader so you’re up to date from wherever you connect. I use (and love) newsgator online, but there’s also Google Reader, Bloglines etc etc etc. Big advantage of those is they’re accessible from pretty much anything. iPhone version of Newsgator is particularly good.
Here’s the newsgator link:
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorOnline/Default.aspx
Tony Kiernan on March 18th, 2008
I like Sage. But, my one problem with it is that you can’t get the synchronisation of something like Newsgator across machines. Using Foxmarks to synchronise your bookmarks (and reading from the ‘Sage Feeds’ folder) you can get various machines to be read the same stuff, but not record what has been viewed.
(This is probably very obvious to anyone with a basic grasp of RSS. Hey, there’s someone here actually interested in xml, we leave that to him.)