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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1280 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on April 15, 2006 and belongs in the site news category. The previous post was Today’s Links (15/04/06), and the next post is Today’s Links (18/04/06).

Comments Opened Up

I just installed the Askimet plugin for Movable Type, and, to see if it works as well as reported, anyone can now leave a comment without having to wait for me to approve it.

(If you can be bothered, do leave a comment on this entry so I can see everything is working well. If it’s working badly, expect a deluge of comments on all entries advertising dubious things.)

Posted at 6pm on 15/04/06 by Jack Mottram to the site news category.
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  1. Akismet’s great, except during the moments when it flickers (I suspect that some of the times I’ve gotten runs of hundreds of spams in a few minutes have been part of an attempt to DDoS Akismet, since they don’t make much sense otherwise). I think I’ve only had three false positives, out of 16K since last fall, and those were from unneeded entity-encoding from someone trying to avoid having emoticons converted to images.

    Posted by Phil Ringnalda at 7pm on 15.04.06

  2. 1000 free smilies, free for the taking. Also great deals on herbal remedies. Want details? Ask me.

    Posted by bonaldi at 8pm on 15.04.06

  3. I think I’ve only had three false positives, out of 16K since last fall

    Blimey, that’s pretty good.

    It seems to be working well so far here - couple of hundred spams identified as such, only one slipped through the net.

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 6pm on 16.04.06

  4. i’m not convinced - it will end in tears

    Posted by bobbydad at 9am on 17.04.06

  5. VI alis MED$$$ VI4GR4 etc

    Posted by luke at 3pm on 18.04.06

  6. VI alis MED$$$ VI4GR4 etc

    Posted by luke at 3pm on 18.04.06

  7. Hee. That was too convincing, Luke: I was really annoyed that Askimet wasn’t working until I saw the email address.

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 5pm on 18.04.06

  8. xxxxxxxpostmodern cognitive spacexxxxxx

    Posted by sgt.serenity at 3pm on 21.04.06

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