Blogspot and spam
Speaking of comments, several of you have told me that your comments are getting eaten by spam filters. Well, the reason is that Spam Karma has added blogspot blogs to its filter due to all the link farms/spam blogs set up on blogspot. So, I’ve recovered some and there are others that I can’t find. If you’re comment hasn’t shown up, I apologize. Fact is, it’s hard for me to go find your comment if it’s older than a few hours and that’s because I get over 500 spam attempts per day.
Update: I think I’ve recovered all comments in the last 24 hours. If your is still missing, let me know. I recommend you leave the URL field blank if you use a blogspot blog. It sucks.
Update 2: In comments, John recommends you use tinyurl.com.
May 5th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Experiment for a blogspot folk: create a tinyurl with you blogspot address in it.
May 5th, 2006 at 10:24 am
The url above is a tinyurl that points to sayuncle. Y’all should be able to continue linking your blogspots here using any similar service. I know that at work (where most of my blog reading occurs) I ain’t clicking an inscrutible link without evidence that it’s SFW, but it’s better than no url at all.
May 5th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
works perfectly. I had been blocked all day yesterday but now, I am free to comment at will.
Thanks oops I crapped my pants…
May 5th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
I ain’t clicking an inscrutible link without evidence that it’s SFW, but it’s better than no url at all.
john, check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/preview.php
Eat a cookie from tinyurl.com and it will show you where you are about to be redirected to. It’s a cookie called preview with the value of “1”. This means this is not a tracking cookie. This is one of the select few that I don’t regularly upchuck.