{"id":146,"date":"2006-03-25T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=146"},"modified":"2006-03-25T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T16:30:21","slug":"half-a-victory-in-the-war-against-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/25\/half-a-victory-in-the-war-against-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a Victory in the War Against Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may well have noticed, spam has rendered my MessageCenter completely unusable. Less obvious: There are also ongoing spam attacks against my blog. The spam-comments themselves usually show up in old postings, but when I weed them out, it&#8217;s tough to avoid killing good commenta, too. (I accidentally deleted one from Mark Mayerson this morning&#8211;sorry, Mark.)<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I just installed an update to my blogging software,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\"> Movable Type<\/a>, which should do most of the work of purging spam from the blog for me. Keep your fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: I don&#8217;t know of any way to kill spam from the MessageCenter except manually, and it&#8217;s coming in far too fast to keep up with. And the software behind the message board hasn&#8217;t been updated in a very long time, so I don&#8217;t anticipate being able to solve the problem with technology. Unless the attacks mysteriously end soon, I&#8217;m going to have to find and install a new message board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may well have noticed, spam has rendered my MessageCenter completely unusable. Less obvious: There are also ongoing spam attacks against my blog. The spam-comments themselves usually show up in old postings, but when I weed them out, it&#8217;s tough to avoid killing good commenta, too. (I accidentally deleted one from Mark Mayerson this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/25\/half-a-victory-in-the-war-against-spam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half a Victory in the War Against Spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}