If you tried to visit View from the Isle, the Qumana blog, or any number of Blogware-powered blogs, last night you were greeted with a maintenance notice.  What was up?  This (right).  Captcha (the graphic thingy).  This is the first step, I believe, is a steady series of improvements to Blogware in the spam battle.  So, on View from the Isle and Qumana blogs, anonymous comments are back on.  I'm holding off turning them back on for the other blogs I manage until I see how well it works.  I've also re-enabled trackbacks.  Why?  Well, since the trackback spam was still hitting all my previous posts, there wasn't really any point in not allowing trackbacks for the new ones.  It was like putting a band-aid on a severed arm.

 

I appreciate how Blogware handled this.  Yeah, they caught some serious flack.  But Kim Phelan did leave comments and respond to e-mails.  So ... the adventure continues.

 

 

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