Kevin's Weblog

I’ve started getting hammered with comment spam. A small trickle over the last week, and then dozens today. Fortunately, I set up the “simplest thing that could possibly work” protection, requiring people to enter my name, as soon as it started and that seems to be holding back the flood. The annoying thing was that I kept getting emails from wbnotify on all of them, so I had to keep going to check if things were getting through. I fixed that, but it required some cut-and-paste hackery. I may have to give some more thought into how the writeback plugin ought to really work. It seems pretty clear that it needs it’s own plugin system to address issues like this.