If you are one of them, please let me know via e-mail.
Sheesh, I don’t know what changed, but I’ve, I think chained the thing behind bars.
Please try again.
If you are one of them, please let me know via e-mail.
Sheesh, I don’t know what changed, but I’ve, I think chained the thing behind bars.
Please try again.
Testing… 🙂
Yoo Hoo …
Works for me 🙂
I’m in or on, or both in and on in some prepositionally fuzzy way. LOL. — My login over at Jane’s was fine last night too.
Whatever you did fixed the ACCESS DENIED screen. Thanks!
Hooray! I’m back! Thank you; I know that hearing your spam filter needs the butterfly nets again is tedious.
Seems to be working for me now too. 🙂
Login works for me, too 🙂
Yay! Now I have 50 or so spammers who got through the gate—this means I will have to summarily delete and manually disable all new member registrations—so if you ARE wanting to join, look in the Contact Us tab above, and e-mail me. THEN register. I recommend you register, though we never object to lurkers—at least registering puts you in the group who have access and who become names I know, and I’ll fish your comments out of the spam filter if they get stuck.
So if you are new, here’s what you do. Register. Then e-mail me, personally, and give me your screen name and (one assumes) the same email addy you used registering. I then search through the pile to verify your name, approve you in, and you’re good.
If you want one of these shiny picture avatars, sign up for a gravatar.com account with the pic before you register. The site takes gravatars first, before the alien creatures it generates.
So good to have you guys back! I’d rather hand-delete spam than lose you.
Just everybody who’s registering follow the new procedure to register!
I finally made it. 🙂
I must have slipped in while it was looking in the other direction. I was already logged in when I opened this page. But I have never been able to log in to Jane’s page; tried to register multiple times months ago and finally gave up. Maybe when things calm down this time, I’ll try again.
Just checking that I can log-in and comment.
Best of luck with catching with the spammers slimy tricks.
I’m back in. Yay!
I had a stealth installation/infestation of Bing the other day — Bing didn’t show up in my list of programs, but it had hijacked Firefox and kept defaulting it to Bing instead of google. The only way I could get rid of the obnoxious weedware was to reset Firefox to its defaults, which screwed up NewsFox, which I use to read blogs and webcomics. I had to reload NewsFox. Fortunately, I had recently backed up my NewFox subscription list so I didn’t have to recreate the list of the blogs/comics/webcomics I follow, but it took me over an hour to get NewsFox reloaded and working the way I like it to, and then I got locked out of your blog. By that point, a steady stream of not very nice words was coming out of my mouth and the kitties had retreated to under the bed.
see: http://theowlunderground.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/oh-and-did-i-mention/
for the GIF I made which represented what I wanted to do to Bing like the big green guy did to Loki.
Hello, I am still here (or will be if this posts). Grumpy because I’ve been housebound by far too many snow events (Iowa) but looking forward to New Orleans in March.
I’m Back…..HUZZAH And I have had no problem with logging into Jane’s either. Very glad that you managed the problem so quickly.
Reading about the adventures of Shu makes me think more than ever that Aloysius has some Bengal hidden in him somewhere. His favorite thing is to leap onto my shoulders sit, start licking my ear and then sink his teeth into me. The licking is a warning….not for cute!
It’s starting to snow again; supposedly it will turn to rain before turning back to snow which will make for some interesting driving! We’ll see, Grasshopper……we’ll see!
Just checking to make sure I can post. I really never have anything to say, but when I want to say it, I want to be able to SAY IT.
Oh, so glad to see all of your—avatars—again!
It looks as if I’m allowed back in, too.
I’m no good at math, but having to delete 50 spammers each day has started me thinking. Last time I heard a number, you had about 400 registered commenters; divided by 50 a day would mean that in 8 days you could put us all on the ‘white list’ for the new software that was blocking us all, and then you could just use that and be rid of the daily spamcleaning.
Wouldn’t that be an energy-efficient trade-off?
Except I’d spread the whitelisting out a bit more – even if it takes a month to okay everyone who asks to be whitelisted, I’d guess people wouldn’t mind a few weeks of not being able to comment if we know it will save you a lot of aggravation and give you a bit more freedom or writing time in the long run.
Did the request to be whitelisted, that the blocking software offered to send for me, get through? If so, just okaying everyone who sends in one of those requests, without digging through the full spam folder, should be enough to get your commenters allowed while blocking the rest.
Maybe these ideas won’t work, but the present situation seems untenable for long to me.
I got in with no problem. I don’t comment much here, am more active on Facebook these days.
I do web development, specializing in wordpress, and most of my clients only experience comment and registration spam when they accidentally turn off Akismet. I usually also install wordfence to help screen out assorted hack attempts. I’d be happy to help if you would like me to look over security issues – just email me, the address is in my profile.
Looks like I’m here fine and dandy too. The snow that SmartCat referred to has finished up in the Boston area, and I presume in her Rhode Island neck of the woods too, only about 2 inches or so today, just like we had on Saturday to the north of Boston but snow is piled everywhere from the multiple weeks of storm.
I spent a lovely weekend visiting my Mom in Barrington, NH. On Friday evening=Valentine’s Day a bunch of us did a full moon hike by snow shoe (and boot for Mom and me: I wasn’t about to haul snow shoes in on the subway to work that day and then up on the Downeaster train to nearby Durham, NH where I grew up). The moonglow was so bright that I could almost make out colors and certainly distinguish shades. I think I am going to put a “moon shadow” chase scene in the sequel to my novel, which I am now working on — the long, dark shadow lines of trees come alive and reach up to passers-by, only to be escaped by seeking refuge in the dark, north side of a large rock that has never seen sun or moon shadow.