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Written by Matt B · first published 20/04/2008

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Eastcliff Richard

Written by Matt B · first published 17/04/2008

This post is dedicated to the author of the Eastcliff Richard blog. ER has a a long list of quotes on his sidebar where people have said things about him and his blog. I figured he might like to flesh it out a bit so here are a random assortment of things being said about him made up just now and then said...

"As gregariouse as a sand storm in a desert!"

"The loudest voice of the Ramsgate Anonymi is clearly someone who is able to use the Internet."

"Significantly less mammiferous than a number of bloggers we could mention he still manages to milk things for all they are worth."

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Stopping Comment Spam

Written by Matt B · first published 07/04/2008

While this will not be of the greatest of use to a large slice of Thanet's bloggers it should be of use to those of us that have progressed beyond blogger in our needs and requirements. Having now stabilised the server against a massive denial of service attack of spam comments I have gathered enough notes to write quite an in depth post on the subject.

Rather than bother the bulk of Thanet's bloggers for whom the article will possibly be a little too technical I will post a link to it on a blog I maintain exactly for all that technical stuff: How to beat blog spammers and their spam - a guide is the article (it came to six pages in my word processor while I was spell checking it) and it covers the story of what I have done and an in depth listing of things you can do too to stop spam hitting your comments.

For those on fully hosted solutions (blogger) you will have to hope that your hosts have some answers.

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