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Blocking comments

Over these past weeks the amount of spam that I receive each day has grown to unmanageable proportions and it is taking me up to 30 minutes each day to delete it from my Diary entries. The spam comes in via the “Add Comment” option that I have available for those who wish to add their thoughts on a subject.

Reluctantly, I am going to have to turn off this facility in the short term, until I can find a way to delete all span from the site. This may be possible with later versions of the software that I am using, but there are issues with installing this and migrating the current Diary entries over, so until I can be assured that none of the current entries will be lost in the update, I will stay with the current software.

The time I need to delete the spam is time I usually devote to writing the Diary entries, so I have decided that these are more useful than the comments. I will be arranging for this option to be turned off in the coming days.

If anyone wants to give me feedback directly, I am always available by email and I can include comments sent in this manner in new Diary entries. My email address is: andrea@birthinternational.com.

Posted by andrea at November 25, 2004 03:43 PM

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