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| Tech note |
| 2009-01-02 |
| Yesterday we had 27 comments under the bloid on the main page. Of those, 13 were spams, most of them dealt with by our software routine. 13 out of 27 makes them tedious, so at some point, probably today, I'm going to make them disappear. Mods, please leave any that don't vaporize with an alert on the poster page, and I'll add their content to the filters. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 As I sit here hoping to out-snark Frank G someday soon, it warms my heart to know that Fred is on guard behind the scenes, fighting malicious morons from Russia and China to Berkeley and Vancouver. I just wish he could gun them down. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2009-01-02 16:06 |
| #16 I've built the back end to the counter. Assuming this works okay, I'll build the rest of it this evening or tomorrow. |
| Posted by: Fred 2009-01-02 15:43 |
| #15 As I said, seeing the death of spam bots brings me a kind of joy I should talk to my psychiatrist about. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-01-02 13:16 |
| #14 I like the idea of a daily spam "death toll" counter, maybe somewhere on the right.... |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-01-02 13:08 |
| #13 How about an automatically generated worm to infect the bot, and kill it? I don't like worms, but they have their uses. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-02 12:24 |
| #12 It's a thought... |
| Posted by: Fred 2009-01-02 11:39 |
| #11 Maybe a counter somewhere? |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-02 10:49 |
| #10 You shouldn't even be seeing it anymore. I let the blanks go through to make sure it was working right. Now they just fizzle. |
| Posted by: Fred 2009-01-02 10:39 |
| #9 Thanks Fred. I can't tell you the perverse satisfaction I get seeing the bot wasting time trying to post spam. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-01-02 09:37 |
| #8 It's really how JOE! gets today item, amirite? |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-02 08:17 |
| #7 ElerryErope, Duaniawar, gidgezexy ... Even after all this time the random name generator still makes me laugh. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-02 08:15 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: gidgezexy 2009-01-02 08:00 |
| #5 Aww, did Fred sew your lips shut? |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-02 05:23 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Duaniawar 2009-01-02 04:45 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: ElerryErope 2009-01-02 01:10 |
| #2 If we get enough Hamas honcho's no one will want to be number 3. And as we have found in Iraq and Afghanistan that is a good thing. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-01-02 00:53 |
| #1 We vaporize spam, the IAF vaporizes Hamas, it's all good ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-02 00:20 |