(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.)

From the TypeKey page linked above:

> What is it good for?

> TypeKey enables you to verify and protect your identity on the web. Enabling TypeKey on your own site increases accountability for the content that appears on your weblog and stops comment spam cold.

Not any more it doesn’t. The screenshot below shows a comment, since deleted, left on this post, by a spammer registered with TypeKey as goldyy. (The little icon next to the poster’s name indicates that they’re signed in with TypeKey.)

Since I’m guessing I’ll have to reinstall Movable Type and its various helper widgets to fix the problems, I might finally ditch it in favour of WordPress, which, as well as being free in both senses of the word, looks to have great anti-spam features built in, and will be easier for me to tinker with, since it’s written in PHP.

Fascinating news, I’m sure you’ll agree.

(I swear I’ll post something proper soon, most probably about the installation by recent RSA prize-winner Briony Anderson that I’m going to look at tomorrow, in Banff. Either that, or something about those stinking Tories and their blatantly racist traveller-hating dressed up as planning issues, doubtless invoking Godwin’s Law in the first sentence.)

Fuck off and die.

Yours sincerely,

Jack Mottram

• Snort K. Seward
• Woodcraft A. Cleave
• Tableaus O. Prepositional
• Hottentot P. Peppering
• Finnbogadottir A. Calcium
• Confluent L. Nail
• Epicurus H. Hallucinating

I assume these peculiar pseudonyms are intended to foil spam filters. Whatever, they certainly make the occasional sorties into my Junk folder to check for genuine correspondence that’s been caught in the spam traps much more fun than they ought to be.