They've totally won.
I've had all I can stands, and I can't stands no more!
Well over 99% of the comments and trackback pings posted are spam, and I'm tired of having to clean up the garbage every day, so I've removed the ability to create comments or trackbacks. My guess is that the maybe three people who actually intentionally read this blog don't really care. Even they didn't regularly leave comments, and they need to email me more often to let me know how they're doing anyway.
To disable the features, I modified the comment and individual entry templates to remove the comment entry form.
I tried renaming the mt-comments.cgi and mt-tb.cgi files in the cgi directory on the server, but this caused all sorts of errors in the blog, so, since I don't have the time right now to figure out how to do it "right" I just changed the blacklist in MT-Blacklist to have an entry for each individual letter of the alphabet. Since the blacklist is now MUCH shorter, I am hoping it reduces the load on the server.
If you desperately want to leave a comment, you can send an email to:
comments at blogdom dot org
replacing the at above with @ and the dot above with .
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Posted by David at January 09, 2007 09:20 AM