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Why Bad Behavior can be a good thing

inkworks — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:19:20 +0000

The tweaks and peaks are nearly finished. We are experimenting with plugins as time permits, the Bad Behavior plugin in particular. It is a collection of scripts that aim to keep spammers from even finding a blog, let alone polluting its comments with drivel about performance enhancing drugs or any of the dozen or so other topics we’ve seen lately. Comment spammers have been dropping links for hotels of all things, criminy. Hotels, travel agencies, insurance, real estate, Texas Hold’em poker, the list goes on. We will probably allow a few comment spammers through so we can use them for show & tell with clients, but by & large Bad Behavior keeps the comment spammers away. We’ve seen a greatly reduced number of them with that plugin activated, anyway. We have also seen that it sometimes blocks real visitors but? It comes with a whitelist that can be used when needed.

Moving up in the world

inkworks — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:55:16 +0000

The old HTML news page has been morphed into a WordPress blog and the data entries migrated. The default blog theme is being modified to resemble the look and feel of our business site. What’s next? Something about a current or recently completed project? We have a few more things to finish up with the blog configuration and then the rest will follow.

Security Newsletters for the Linux Crowd!

inkworks — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:15:57 +0000

We’ve landed a gig doing the Security Update newsletters for Linux.com – a division of OSTG. SlashDot is also a part of OSTG. Watch for our weekly contributions!