Red Leopard

I want to allow people to comment on the site. I found that after I shut off comments, I simply stopped writing.
Here’s a second try.

I raised the white flag today. I thought I had turned comments off in moveable type (v 2.6x) and deleted all the old spam. But today — just 2.5 days after cleaning up the mess — there were another 556 spam turdlettes on the site.
I don’t have time for this.
I haven’t gotten the entire site [...]

People warned me. But did I listen? NOooooooo.
I’ve been away from blogging for a while. When I came back, some 10,000 spam messages stained my comments. I have no time to deal with it except to delete all existing comments and turn comments off.
Deleting comments the easy way required logging into mySQL.

mysql> DELETE FROM mt_comment;

Query [...]

Anatomy of a spam message:
I got this one in my box. It didn’t display properly since I’m not using a Microsoft mail reader. But it did slip past the junk mail filter. Most filters work on a point system. If a message accrues enough spam points, it’s flagged as junk.
It’s a good new, bad news [...]

The sobig virus has hit me. Well, not me directly. I’m on the Mac. But it has hit someone (I don’t know who) and I’m affected (even if not infected).