…notify me by e-mail.
A screenname that cannot be pronounced plus a registration from certain domains will get your account deleted by our security system—me.
The generic domain .info is now on the radar as repeatedly producing this sort of spam-attempt registration without a single detectable bona fide registration. I am deleting all .info accounts. Also on the no-fly list are: .ru, .pl, .kz, and .ng.
If you are accidentally caught in this deletion, you can still read these posts: so if you are not a bot, please e-mail me at the CONTACT addy above and I will gladly and forever exempt your addy from this action. We want our friends, definitely.
oh, discovered what was wrong with my blog – not wordpress at all, but the host for my website, mediatemple – gone under with malware – so everything has to be moved to another host. what a pain!
Bummer! The bots are getting incredibly persistent. I wish some country would impose a 20 year prison term, no parole, no phones, no electronic access, for anybody caught.
“Hey! We don’t serve their kind here!”
“What?”
“Your droids. They’ll have to wait outside. We don’t want them here.”
And now for something completely ridiculous, can any of your sites run PHP and SQL?
I think we ARE php and sql, but I’ve never gotten into the guts of it. Anything I plug in I think has to be a WP module…but if there were a way to bounce things from certain origins that have never produced an actual human registrant it would be a nice thing. Perhaps if you could provide me with some buzzwords I could search the WP plugin list and find something. I know that I could require one of those ‘spell the twisty words’ tests, but those are kind of annoying and I’d hoped for something a little less obtrusive.
Hm. I’ve never noticed a .php on any of your pages. The reason I asked is those are the two requirements I remembered from phpBB, a very widely used, free bulletin board system. It’s no good for blogging because the last touched thread goes to the top; but it’s great for discussions because it will tell each user which threads have additions and exactly where the first unread message in the thread is–though you can’t intersperse comments the way you can here. (Back on the good side, you can preview messages, and the message coding is a little more obvious.) I could give you links to a couple message boards that use it, one pretty stock, one custom. It might be worth a look to handle persistent discussions. In your copious free time. 😉
http://www.phpbb.com/
Thanks, Walt!