Order of the Bath

In the last few days I have been hit by comment spam—rotten really as I don’t ordinarily get many comments at all. You won’t have seen them because there are two lines of defence. You first have to register an account and even then the comment is sent to me first for moderation. This probably puts legitimate comentators off but I see I was right in chosing this system.

The first of these bulwarks is not working. Somehow the spammers are getting comments into the system without first registering accounts. It seems to be a timely reminder that I need to upgrade to WordPress 2 so please excuse me if the blog is down for some of the time over the weekend.

A secondary benefit is that I am told that Akismet spam defence is built into the new version, so perhaps I may be able to relax the rules a bit, but one thing at a time.

This entry was posted on 19 May 2006 at 23:41 by Rick and is filed under Technical, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.