Author: Glenn Hauman

From America’s Finest News Source…

UPDATE: insideman noted this first in comments a few days back, and if there’s anything we here at PeterDavid.net are, it’s sticklers for credit. Right, Rob?

…you can see it here. Be warned, this version is a little blocky.

After purging over 500 comment spams from the site (and my own inbox) in the last 24 hours, I’m done. No more unregistered comments. If you’re having problems with Typekey– like no confirmation email– go here and post; the nice folks at Six Apart will want to know who can’t get their email, so they can talk with the ISPs.

If that doesn’t satisfy, then send good thoughts to Jay Allen and hope that he gets his new and improved version of MT-Blacklist up and running soon. Even better, kick him some money. (Yes, an appeal for money that neither Peter or I will see a dime of. He’s an anti-spammer. Money isn’t nearly enough, but the only church I can make him a saint in is the Church of the SubGenius.)

…are at the midnight showing of Spider-Man 2, I’m sitting here trying to clean up the site. The latest:

Registration now appears to be working, and is pretty painless.* If you register, you’ll be able to post immediately. If not, your posts are going to have to wait until someone here decides to go on a cleaning spree and clean out the inbox. Which, considering Peter and I are both staring at some deadlines, could be hours or days later.

* Unless you don’t get the Typekey confirmation mail, as some ISPs have treated them as spam. If you have that problem, post here with “typekey problem” as your first line, along with your ISP, and we’ll try to fix it with typekey.

The process continues. A few notes:

* Thnaks to Mark L. for pointers that are helping solve some of the problems. However, they don’t seem to be addressing problems with Typekey themselves, as it’s refusing to send me a registration email. If anybody else has been able to become a registered user of Typekey, let me know– and of course, please try to use it here, so I have a real registered commentor to test against.

* Secondly, I have discovered only after upgrading that MT-Blacklist is incompatible with the new version of Movable Type– which means my spam inbox is going to be exploding shortly. Thanks heaps, SixApart– I’m SO glad I paid you money.

Folks, if you can avoid upgrading, DON’T. If any representatives of SixApart would deign to contact me so that these niggling little problems can be worked out, feel free– otherwise, I’m going to keep using the bully pulpit here.

* Finally, to the chap who prompted all of this in the first place: Dee, you better run. Peter was merely ticked at you; I’m now out for blood after having to spend hours cleaning up your messes. Disconnecting your Comcast account isn’t going to be enough to hide– I recommend moving.

UPDATE: If I didn’t make it clear, when you post, clicking on Typekey should allow you to sign up so that you won’t have to wait for your posts to be approved. So please do so, because otherwise who knows when your comments will go live.

FURTHER UPDATE (3:51 PM): Typekey has numerous reports of the confirmation emails being blocked as spam. So we’re working with that as well. Joy.

We’ve had to switch to a registration system for comments. The first time you post, your comments will go into a holding tank until we approve you. Subsequent comments from the same recognized commenter will be posted immediately.

This may take a bit to catch up with new comments; bear with us. Feel free to use this thread to make your comments, so we can approve them.

UPDATE: Comments are taking longer to fix than anticipated. Stop posting here, we’ll let you know when things get back to normal.

So… what’dja think?