I’m attending to a little housekeeping here…
Spam and spambots are the bane of my blogging existence. Until a couple of months ago, I manually deleted spam comments. There were hundreds on some days; other days just a few. (They seemed to come in waves and most of them had an .RU url. Go figure.)
Anyway, I finally figured out an automated system for handling this. What I had not been able to do until now was install a system to prevent spambots from registering on the site as users. Well that changed this evening. There is now a ‘captcha-type’ system in place.
Unfortunately, I still have several hundred “subscribers” the vast majority of which are from spambots. To keep things clean, I am going to delete everyone from my users list (except for the handful of names I can recognize). I apologize in advance to anyone this may inconvenience, however it’s the only way I know of to clean that database up. Please take a moment to leave your info again.
Thank you.
