Comment Spam
Friday, May 19th, 2006 • 1:20 pmNew measures to combat comment spam, and their possible consequences for you.
New measures to combat comment spam, and their possible consequences for you.
Problem with Betalogue e-mail delivery solved.
Problem with Betalogue registration confirmations not getting delivered.
Some minor adjustments to the design of the Betalogue web.
An addendum regarding URL rewriting for the pMachine to WordPress transition.
The last chapter in the switching saga: rewriting URLs
New Betalogue RSS 2.0 feed with excerpts only
After explaining the process of switching from pMachine 2.3 to WordPress 1.5, I’d like to address a few issues regarding this transition. First of all, I want to stress that this was actually a triple switch rather than a simple switch. I switched from pMachine to WordPress, but I also switched domain names (from latext.com […]
In spite of my earlier concerns, I was actually able to migrate from pMachine to WordPress relatively easily. Since, as far as I know, this procedure is not really documented anywhere on the web, I thought I’d share a few comments about the process, in case it might help out other people in a similar […]
New address for Betalogue, new feeds…
I am afraid my plans to move this blog to www.betalogue.com and start using a new blogging system have hit a snag. The basic problem is that there is no easy way to migrate all my existing data (blog entries, membership information, user comments) from pMachine to WordPress. Based on what I am reading on […]
Most Betalogue readers visit the site at its regular address, i.e. www.latext.com/pm/betalogue. However, a couple of years ago, I posted a note about the fact that I had registered and parked the betalogue.com domain name and that it could be used as an alternative to access my main web site. Well, the time has come […]
In order to avoid getting even more spam, I have to take a few precautions. So if you want to contact me, Pierre Igot, the author of this blog, by e-mail, you can use my Gmail account. My Gmail user name is “latext“. The rest is the same as in any Gmail account (gmail.com). Please […]
Just a quick word to let Betalogue readers know that my host is currently experiencing serious problems and is in the process of moving me (and other customers) to a new server. Until then, there might be further interruptions of service at unpredictable times. I am supposed to be moved to the new server early […]
As regular Betalogue readers know, due to comment spam issues, I was recently forced to change the default behaviour on my blog for users wanting to post comments on a blog item. Betalogue readers now have to register before they can post a comment. Before that, unregistered users could see a form at the bottom […]