No Mo’ Comments
posted at 11:37 am
on Jul. 6, 2005
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Hi folks.
My hosting provider has disabled all new Web site comments because spammers are trying super extra hard to spam my blog today. Here’s what they wrote:
Dear Travis Smith,
The perl script /var/www/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi is causing high CPU loads on the server. Please take appropriate measures to fix the issue. I have removed executable permissions from this script because of the problems it’s causing. This is so it won’t run but you will have access to the file.
Please do not add executable permissions back to the script until the problem has been fixed. If this happens again, we’ll have to suspend apache services.Sincerely,
Jumpline.com Support Team
I will be changing shortly to the Expression Engine blog tool instead of Movable Type, which still has not shipped with a working spam blocking interface (yes, there’s plugins you can install to fight spam; yes, I installed them; no, I think it’s unacceptable to ship with no spam blocking tools in 2005.)
I hope we’ll be back to normal within a week. For now, you can always email me.
