Blog Under Threat

For the second time, I am tempted to shut down this unprofitable, time-wasting, labor of love. And the reason is the same as the first time. Comment Spammers attach links to their porn and viagra and mortgage sites to increase their google rankings.

A GREAT product called MT-Blacklist rescued me the first time. Now, the blacklist product is consuming so much CPU time rejecting spammers that I am being kicked off unless I upgrade to a very expensive plan.

I will look at other solutions (I have a couple in mind) any bloggers who have suggestions, please comment or email me: jk [at] b e r k e l e y s q u a r e j a z z [dot] c o m.

Sorry for the whining. These guys bug me, piggybacking on legitimate businesses to hawk their illegitimate and frequently illegal sites. What I really want is a group of renegade, pissed-off bloggers to launch denial of service attacks against their sites. I've been mad for a year -- I want to get even!

UPDATE: Okay, I'll stop whinin' and start working. There are several things I can do. Comments may be a little flaky as I rewok some templates, let me know if they are down for a long period.

By the way, I will be closing posts to comments after ten days and only posting ten days of posts on the front page. Our discussions will need to be brief. All commenters have or are welcome to a login to post as an author here if the comment process becomes too onerous.