Random thoughts and observations
I installed the WordPress Bad Behaviour plugin a few days ago. It “complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place”. Sure enough, in just three days it has blocked 2680 access accounts and [...]
I’ve made some minor changes to this site to conserve bandwidth. I don’t have to worry about bandwidth that much on my hosting account, but in principle I don’t like huge amounts of data being transferred for no purpose and potentially at my expense. The main offenders were search robots and spam. I’ve tried to [...]
I upgraded this web site’s publishing tool today to Word Press version 2. I was hesitant to do so given some negative comments regarding plugins and themes, but with some rare time on my hands before the new jobs starts I decided to give it a go. It all went smoothly. The only plugin that [...]
Web spam has become more sophisticated as the control methods improve. I closed down some sections on this web site because I couldn’t be bothered fighting it. Some examples here and on other sites that I run include: 1) My former links directory kept getting automated spam submissions, even though approval was required before links [...]
