October 11th, 2006
New Blog Template
Well, I have deleted over 40,000 spam messages and banned those IP addresses from posting. Hopefully that will take care of most of the spam problems. At the same time this blog template was upgraded to release 3.0.2, which caused several things in the left column to disappear., and a security bug that prevents anybody from posting comments. These should be fixed in the next few days, as work permits.
October 8th, 2006
Spam Attack
For the past 3 months work prevented me from even looking at my blog, but this weekend there was the chance to make amends. That is when I was dismayed to see over 200,000 spam messages. Fortunately Steve Castledine's blog template 3.0.2 has the tools in it to block the spamming IP addresses. This is the template that Steve gave a "blue wash" to, and a version of it is now part of Notes 7.0.2.
So if you had posted something on this blog after June 1, your post will have been deleted, and you will be marked as a spammer. (Email me and I will remove the block). It may take me a while to get rid of all the spam, and to get this new template functioning properly, but there are some new articles in the pipeline.