[wp-hackers] Oh No!!!

[Stephen Cropp]

Mwahahaha!!!! I'm back!!!!

Not that most people noticed or had any clue, but I kinda took the past 
few weeks (okay, nearly a couple of months) off from pretty much 
everything online (well, except for my blog... too much of an addiction 
there) and haven't really been able to code or contribute anything at 
all. Unfortunately I had to admit defeat and withdraw from trying to 
help with the multiblog coding effort, but life kind of has this really 
nasty habit of getting in the way at times.

Anyway, things are almost finally settled on this side of the globe for 
me so I have got a chance to start sitting down and working things out. 
Of course, the final straw for me was not going near the computer for 24 
hours or so and getting absolutely hammered with comment spam on 
Friday/Saturday NZ time. This had two effects for me.

1) Really really really pissed me off.
2) Forced me to sit down and decide how I'm going to deal with the 
comment spam.

Now, I'm fully aware that everyone here in this list is currently 
suffering the same fate as me. In fact, it seems everyone I know is, 
regardless of what platform they're using at the moment. A lot of people 
I setup blogs for forced me ;) to setup their blogs so that only 
registered or whitelisted users could comment. But I have found that is 
far far too much of a kludge to be suitable for me. My current anti-spam 
works, its just that moderating the huge influx of spam in the past 
little while has become really more tedious than I was willing to accept.

Then when Friday hit me, I had to sit down and deal with it, as I'm sure 
most of you are doing lately as well.

In the interim I am intending to take a rather drastic temporary measure 
to deal with it on my own blog 
(http://www.de-generationx.net/blog/archives/2004/10/02/645/) but I am 
also intending on working on a few new plugins that will compliment not 
only Kitten's work, but also many of the other things already out there.

Before I start going in to it here (or anywhere else) in too much 
detail, I'm actually going to take the time to go back over everything 
you have all posted on this matter since I suspended my subscription to 
the list in August so that I'm not just rehashing all your ideas.

However, thats really totally and completely beside the point ;-)

All I really wanted to say was "Hi" and "I'm back" and let y'all know 
that some guy that hangs around on the edges will be making an effort 
again come Monday. :-)

Hi, I'm back :-)

Steve
(aka Korgan)
http://www.de-generationx.net/