Spam, spam, spam

Posted by kathryn in Blogging

Over the last few days Limes & Lycopene has been suffering. Those bloody spammers have pushed through the defences and wreaked some havoc.

And all this coincided with my being away on holidays.

Which means it was a few days into the spam storm before I realised what was going on.

We have fixed the spamming problem, retrained the detector and all seems to be well.

However a big big big apology to any of you who, having subscribed to comments, received some emails containing spam. I’m quite upset and embarrassed to know this has happened. A big sorry.

Richard and I are working on a better plan for dealing with spam, and also an easier method for unsubscribing from comments. Which will minimise this problem in the future.

Thanks for your patience. And again a big sorry.


Comments

Caitlin 11 November, 2008

I don’t know what platform you use – I’m on Wordpress and I’ve had good results with Akismet.


Em 11 November, 2008

It was a bugger Kathryn, but not enough of a deterrent when you’re on to a great thing like your blog!!


Sophie 12 November, 2008

poor you, not a nice way to finish your holiday!

I second Akismet. It works really well for me with moveable type – I don’t think I’ve had any spam get through since I installed it


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