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January 19, 2005

Google CANS Comment SPAM

Google today announced plans to block Blog Comment Spam, on the theory that if they don't give blog spam any visibility, if there is no value in spamming blogs, the practice will stop. Horay for Google!!!

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December 29, 2004

Charity in the Wake of the Tsunami

Revised Jan 4th, 2005 by Heather
the problem I reported Dec 29th with Domain Routing for Doctors Without Borders has apparently been fixed!

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December 26, 2004

Blog Spammers are dirtballs

I have recently turned off UNREGISTERED comments to this site due to abuse by Comment Spammers.

Many weblogs have been hit by a plague of spammers trying to post "Spam comments", that is, comments that are mostly links to sites offering goods and services that no one here is interested in. Comments to this website do not get seen by the public until I approve them, and frankly, I'm never going to approve so-called comments that are just full of links to casinos, poker-sites and various "medical" vendors.

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