Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT

dJ phuturecybersonique writes "Netcraft reports that 'Comment spam attacks on Movable Type weblogs are straining servers at web hosting companies, leading some providers to disable comments on the popular blogging tool. The issues are caused by bugs in MT, forcing publisher Six Apart to recommend configuration changes while it prepares fixes.' More..."

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Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a good thing Slashdot doesn't have this problem.

So it's dead?

[miyako]

So...Netcraft confirms it, blogging is dead?

Why your Moveable Type blog must die

[__aajqwr7439]

You are all pretentious twats

Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky.

Quite an enjoyable rant.

xox,
Dead Nancy

Re:Why your Moveable Type blog must die

[happyemoticon]

I live in the urbs, I drink cappuccinos, and I work for an academic research unit. My computer is not an iMac, but a PC with XP and Slackware. I'm a euromutt of catholic derivation, and I have pretty broad interests.

But that's pretty damn funny, I'll admit. They forgot, though, that they're all writing dark fantasy novels which will never be published.

There are far too many weblog addicts out there who are excessively vain, and are under some kind of bizarre pretense that they matter, and they seem to exist solely by jacking each other off. Hrmph. But you have to admit, MT users are a little less likely to be whiny baby-bats than, say, livejournal users.

Re:I have a plan

[kmmatthews]

3. Ruin your business plan by posting it to slashdot.

:)

Re:Reusable Proofs of Work

[stinkbomb]

As I'm in the last throws of my PhD...

What's the saving throw vs. dissertation committee?