Due to heavy spamming over Xmas the file mt-comments.cgi has been disabled. So the comments function is turned off. No comments can be made. Trackbacks do not work.
Bear with me. I'm currently in the process of a long overdue upgrade to Movable Type v3.14, plus MT-blacklist as a first step to deal with the pernicious comment spam problem. It would appear that there has been a targeting of MT, by the spammers due to the popularity of its publishing system.
I've been waiting for Movable Type to fix the bugs in their MT-blacklist software that resulted in escalating comment spam that caused extreme server loads. Movable Type has been working on the problem.
I'm not sure whether the spam comment problem has been solved. People are voting with their feet and moving on --to WordPress.
In the meantime--until the upgrade has gone through--comments can be emailed to me and I will incorporate them into the post as an update.
Update
The upgrade has been successful. It is a very different, and a lot more sophisticated, system to the old 2.51 I was using. At the moment I'm having trouble installing the MT blacklist and will need help. So the comments or trackback facilities remain turned off.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at December 30, 2004 06:08 AM | TrackBack