Wednesday
It is possible some comments are getting nailed by our anti-spam blacklist if the entry contains words that are frequently used in spams. Our genuine condolences if your remarks get unjustly rejected but that is the price we pay for not getting our comments deluged with viagra advert and URL's to Russian kiddie porn sites.
Not having a blacklist is simply not an option for us as administering Samizdata.net takes quite a bit of time as it is and clearning up hundreds of spams per day (which is what we got before the blacklist) is just too time consuming.
I will check to see if the blacklist be being overzealous so please e-mail me at admin-at-samizdata.net if you think the blacklist is being too obsessive about some specific word.
I've just started getting trackback SPAMs. Curiously my provider, Blog City, upgraded last week to version 4. As part of the upgrade, they included moderation of trackbacks. That's when the SPAMs started.
Posted by Mark Ellott at June 15, 2005 07:27 PM
Comment deleted by editor: totally off-topic! Feel free to post such remarks as comments to articles about the war in Iraq or some other vaguely related subject but not to an admin post about spam! Thanks
Posted by Cranky Libertarian at June 15, 2005 09:11 PM
The Cranky Libertarian troll has been posting that kind of bile for a while. I suspect he's Bob Dobbs - a banned blogroach - in another incarnation. Incidentally, for some reason I've been knocked back for using the word "et hic" (!!). If this gets through, I suppose it's been fixed.
(take two) Okay, it still won't accept "eth ic". Have to break up the word so it will pass the blacklist.
Posted by I'm suffering for my art at June 16, 2005 06:49 AM
Correction: Yep.
Try again: Samizdatistas are a bunch of middle class winos who fume impotently about ID cards, the EU, the inability of decent ordinary folk to store Uzis or launch ICBMs from their backyards, but never do anything about it.
Only testing, natch.
Posted by Matt O'Halloran at June 16, 2005 10:37 AM
Sure they do something about it, they give us Samizdata and thousand of people read it every day. What do you do, big mouth?
Posted by Snide at June 16, 2005 11:07 AM
I did wonder why I could not use the word "th!ck" the other day, and not I hasten to add in any Viagra related context. Now I know. Seems a bit precious, I must say. If we were for some reason discussing poultry farming, could we not have a valid use for the word "cock"?
Posted by John K at June 16, 2005 02:39 PM
Funny that you should comment about the word "th*ck", but not about the more obvious spam word "Viagra". :-)
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at June 16, 2005 06:27 PM
Comment deleted by editor: we asked politely that you publish comments that are on-topic. You ignored. So no more polite. Kindly fuck off and do not come back
Pointless off-topic screed deleted by Samizdata Admin.
Posted by Cranky Libertarian at June 16, 2005 10:51 PM
Dear Samizdata Admin:
Just curious. Have you been taking administration lessons from the esteemed Andrea Harris?
Thought so. Good on 'ya.
O.G.
Posted by Old Grouch at June 17, 2005 12:55 AM
If you'd post stories about Iraq, then maybe we'd have someplace to post ON TOPIC comments.
Hey, the US lied to you Brits about using napalm. Gee, if our ally lies to you about using napalm against civilians, do you think they might have lied about anything else?
Posted by My heart bleeds at June 17, 2005 05:23 PM
This is a check for socialism. Which contains a rather famous spam word.
Posted by M. Simon at June 20, 2005 02:45 AM
