Change in comment policy
We have been getting hit by script kiddies leaving automated comments on this website. They are posting comments on as many Blogs as possible with the intention of raising their profile in search engines.
I have made the decision to close all posts to comments after they are about one week old. Posts older than this will return an error message if you try to leave a comment. Posts newer than this will not be affected.
I realize that someone might stumble on an older post and have something to offer, if this is the case, they can email me and I will unlock that post for them to comment.
I am sorry for the inconvenience but this is necessary -- over the last few weeks, these lusers have been posting several hundred comments for hard-core pornography sites being hosted on Russian servers. This is not a situation where a quiet word to an ISP Security person would put a stop to this. More drastic measures are needed.
If you run a blog and need something like this, leave me a comment to this post and I'll pass on the link to the software I'm using. I went through a few applications before choosing this one and it seems to work very fast and very well...
Posted by DaveH at January 5, 2005 7:36 PM