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August 28, 2009 by Nobody Fugazi
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Spam... With GarlicI just wanted to write a brief explanation on the spam and how it is being handled. First, I must issue my own apology to everyone. It's my fault that things got so far out of hand and I won't offer any excuse other than I've been busy. But everyone's busy, so that's not an excuse. And to make it worse, I didn't plan for folks to be able to handle spammergencies without me around.


 So, as Ciaran indicated, I fixed that. And I did that by giving all bloggers here the ability to deal with spam posts - something that I should have done a long time ago.

Having read a few thousand comments this afternoon/evening and having gotten a fair amount of spam off the site (we're sending it to Prokofy Neva; I hear she's a big fan), I read a few comments on the spam itself. One being - and surprising me - that the Arabic comment spam was showing up in the RSS feeds. And that meant that someone had been using the RSS feed for entries that they were interested in - the first that I'd heard of it. 


 To be clear - especially to RSS subscribers of articles - if spam is posted and gets past the Mollom filter, it will show up in the RSS feed until one of the many hands gets to it. There's nothing to be done about it. That's the bad news. 
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Happy Towel Day

May 25, 2009 by Nobody Fugazi
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May 25th. Towel Day. Make sure you have your towel, at all times.

And in other news, because of the insistence of people peddling spam in the hallways of Y2P - there's a new sheriff in town, and it's name is Mollom - which is certain to impress everyone except spam peddlers and Prokofy Neva (who, after hating on me, is hating on Drupal).

Other than that, I'm back to the virtual world I live in. As I can, I'll be deleting old comments that have crept in over the last months while I was off doing other things.

Don't forget your towels. Ever.

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