{"id":7196,"date":"2004-10-11T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/11\/its-like-watching-the-bug-zapper.html"},"modified":"2004-10-11T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T17:10:22","slug":"its_like_watchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/11\/its_like_watchi.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s like watching the bug zapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case I haven’t mentioned it in the last day or so, I love MT-Blacklist<\/a>. I just opened up my log, and found 121 comment spams that were blocked by it just over the last weekend. Five more got through — and were easily and trivially removed with a simple click on the notification message. Since I installed the system (with MT3 — what, last week?), 505 comment spams have been blocked.<\/p>\n

W00t! Take that, you naughty website and printer ink-selling scum!<\/p>\n

Add to it that the blacklist under v.2 (MT3) automatically gets updated from the mother ship, and it’s a tool I can’t possibly imagine not having.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case I haven’t mentioned it in the last day or so, I love MT-Blacklist. 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