Login here with your OpenID

Posted on 24 January 2008
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If you have an OpenID, you should now be able to login with it at gavinbaker.com. If you use OpenID, please feel free to test it out, and let me know about any errors in the comments.

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Anti-spam update: Akismet active

Posted on 6 December 2007
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After a pointless and frustrating false positive by Bad Behavior locked me out of my own blog, I’ve disabled Bad Behavior and activated Akismet. For what it’s worth, Bad Behavior had slowed comment spam to a trickle, but it’s too annoying to overcome false positives. We’ll see how Akismet does.

If you have problems accessing the site, or a legitimate comment doesn’t appear on the site after a day or two, drop me a line so I can try to address it.

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Short downtime now resolved

Posted on 23 November 2007
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The site briefly went down due to my forgetful failure to pay for hosting. Sorry about that. Everything should be back to normal now.

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Anti-spam tools now in effect: Bad Behavior active

Posted on 13 November 2007
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The comment spammers recently have started hitting this site hard. This wastes my time on moderating comments and wastes my bandwidth with my host. I’ve installed Bad Behavior to address the problem; hopefully it will help.

This shouldn’t inconvenience any legitimate readers. If there is a false positive, you should receive a notification page with information on how to contact me. The Bad Behavior FAQ also has information on what to do if you’ve suffered the business end of a false positive.

I’ve also installed reCAPTCHA, but have it turned off for now. I don’t want to force captchas on my commenters, as much as I support digitizing public domain books. (If you want to volunteer to help digitize free books, you can fill out reCAPTCHA for fun here, or simply join Distributed Proofreaders.) I may turn it on if things get really hairy.

I’m also considering installing Akismet, but I’ll wait until I see the effect Bad Behavior has. (I prefer not to use Spam Karma because it’s not free software.)

Commenters are still required to register a (free) account on the site. If Bad Behavior keeps down the noise, I may lift that requirement, maybe replacing it with reCAPTCHA and/or Akismet.

My goal is to make it as easy as possible for legitimate users to comment here, imposing the fewest barriers necessary to keep the site spam-free. I apologize for the inconvenience and do appreciate when visitors comment.

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