2005_10_01_archive

Blog Protection Tips

Blog Protection Tips

1. Email Comment Notification

Configure your settings to enable Email Notification of all comments.

BENEFIT: You can see, within your email inbox, any comment spam or

abusive comments that might be polluting your blog, and you can then

quickly delete it.

2. Character Verification (or Math Calculation)

Comment poster must type into text entry box a series of letters

and/or numbers (or the solution to a math problem) displayed against a

visually noisy, distorting background.

BENEFIT: Spambots cannot identify the characters displayed, and are

prevented from posting the spam comment.

3. Blog Template Saving

Copy and paste the code for the blog's main template into a text

editor, such as NotePad, WordPad, StarOffice, MS Word.

BENEFIT: If the template is accidentally deleted or maliciously

erased, it can be replaced.

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Posted by steven edward streight at 10/01/2005 10:19:00 PM 0 comments

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blogging for fun?

Posted by steven edward streight at 10/01/2005 11:19:00 AM 0 comments

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Pull Paul out of internet hell

My blogocombat buddy, Paul Woodhouse, is experiencing some strange

problems with his Tinbasher blog and the blog host.

I will quote most of his post on the topic, below.

"Help, I'm in internet hell."

http://www.butlersheetmetal.com/tinbasherblog/

index.php/archives/2005/09/30/help-im-in-internet-hell

[QUOTE]

... I'm having some seriously bizarre problems with my host.

This is turning into ten hours of internet hell as they keep

suspending me for:

Your account was suspended due to] high httpd useage on

www.butlersheetmetal.com /tinbasherblog/wp-admin/

Don't ask me what that means as I don't have a clue and they haven't

been too forthcoming with any explanations so far.

I went a bit beserk with the last email which started:

It's always good to keep up with the latest versions. Wordpress isn't

the most server friendly blog software available. However, we cannot

force you to remove it.

In the meantime we look like some buffoons who haven't paid their

bill.

I'm obviously going to have to upgrade over the weekend or something,

but if you see the site suspended you now know as little as I do.

[END QUOTE]

If you can help pull Paul out of internet hell, please do. I hate