Re: Bookreview

On Friday 30 November 2007 16:06:04 will wrote:
> Email notification should always work...  I think the only cases where
> it doesn't work is when it kicks up an error.  So that sounds fishy.

The email server I use tends to fall over, so may not be available when the 
site tries to mail me. I don't know if the mails should get queued, but I 
haven't always had one for each comment My sysop is still working on the 
problem. I don't see anything in my site log when the last comments were 
added, just lots of spam getting rejected.

> I hid all my comment-spam killing plugins and any other plugins that I
> deemed "too much information".  But it's up to you as to what you want
> to hide.  I don't have any data suggesting that not hiding is a bad idea.

I've not had issues with comment spam with the current config, but a friend 
using Wordpress was getting them even with Akismet. He's using reCAPTCHA, but 
some spam has still managed to get through. I like the idea of OpenID, but 
haven't tried it on my site yet. There was an interesting article recently 
about how timbl restricts comments. You have to use OpenID and be linked to 
him via FOAF. I hope I never have to go to such extremes.

-- 
Steve


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