Image via Wikipedia I've made a minor change to my comment policy.As of today comments will remain open on posts for 300 days.It was previously set at 180 days. … [Read more...] about Minor Comments Policy Change
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Todaynic – The Spamming Registrar – Wants Me To Change My Post
Image via WikipediaI have little or no patience for spammers, as most people know.Since I run several sites that deal with domains and the internet industry in general I seem to have been targetted by TodayNic's comment and forum spammers. Over the past year or so I've had to remove multiple spam comment attacks from several sites.It's annoying. Very annoying.However it's even … [Read more...] about Todaynic – The Spamming Registrar – Wants Me To Change My Post
How Not To Get A Favourable Mention On A Blog
Anyone who randomly sends forwards me .doc press releases without even making an effort to personalise the email stands zero chance of getting a favourable mention from me ever.It's not terribly hard to use some mailing software to send out press releases.Why do people presume that everyone uses Word?How hard would it be to actually address an email to me personally? Is that … [Read more...] about How Not To Get A Favourable Mention On A Blog
More Dumb Irish Spammers – itext.ie
Don't you just love dumb spammers?itext.ie seem to fit neatly into that group.Their bulk unsolicited email this afternoon checks all the boxes for spam of the worst kind.spammy subject line - checkhtml email with bad use of colour - checkzero personalisation - check no unsubscribe options - checkno explanation of why email sent - checknon-compliance with EU directives on email … [Read more...] about More Dumb Irish Spammers – itext.ie
Minor Change To Comments Policy
In order to preserve what little sanity I have left I've changed the way comments are handled on here slightly.Since comment and trackback spammers seem to target old posts I've decided to automatically close comments on posts that are 6 months old or older.The old posts that were attracting the odd comment were mainly to do with older versions of Ubuntu etc., so there's not … [Read more...] about Minor Change To Comments Policy