Meta: May 2007 Archives

Though my spamfilters --SpamLookup in combination with Akismet-- catch really a lot of comment- and trackback spam on this blog, there is still too much spam slipping through. Since I don't have the time to check my site to see whether comment spam has been published, I have changed my configuration to automatically moderate comments and trackbacks on entries older than twee weeks on which no comment has been posted in the previous week.

This allows me to batch-process the moderation queue, while still making sure that comments on active threads still show up immediately.

During the last hour instead of the usual non-interesting stuff I write you saw:

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While some people might find this more interesting than the usual text, I was not happy with it. I just updated Movable Type to the latest version, and now my sites are dead. As usual, when you think you can quickly update software, it usually takes way more time...

After several tries, I finally found the culprit: my new FTP software tries to be 'smart', and figures out whether a file should be overwritten or not. After dumbing down the FTP software, all is fine again.