As you might have noticed we have been struggling with high volumes of comment spam that hasn’t been picked up by the spam filter. We’d like to offer our sincere apologies for this and let you know that we hope to have the problem solved very soon.
The most unfortunate consequence of having to manually delete up to 300 unwanted comments a day, is that we do seem to have deleted one or two real comments.
All your comments are highly valued by us and extremely valuable to the body of knowledge being built in the WACblog, so please, if you notice that yours has been deleted, do resubmit it if you can. In addition, if you noticed that a comment from someone you know has disappeared, please contact them and refer them to this post.
Many thanks for your understanding over this, we will be spam free again soon.
JackP | 26/10/2006 at 14:56 | Permalink
Since your WAC Blog appears to be powered by wordpress, have you considered the Akismet comment spam filter plug-in, and the Bad Behaviour plug-in for WP?
Since using both of these, I’ve found no comment spam has actually made it through to my site (and I check my comments feed regularly), but it’s catching spam regularly (20+ comments some days, but I imagine your site is more popular than mine. Which is wrong, obviously, but there’s no accounting for taste).
Oh, and I’d just like to add that I’m very disappointed to have missed Henny when she was up in my neck of the woods (Gateshead). It’s always nice to actually meet “online people” in real life… next time there’s anyone up on Tyneside, make sure you tell me, ok?
Bim | 27/10/2006 at 10:39 | Permalink
Hi Jack, We did have the WordPress filters in place, but at some point their server address apparently changed, and the new one wasn’t on our server’s white-list. So we seem to have been bouncing the filter and keeping the spam. All fixed now.
You’re sure to get another chance to meet at least some of us soon. We’ll try to make sure that visits to Tyneside get an extra blogging.
Henny | 27/10/2006 at 12:27 | Permalink
Hi Jack,
Had I known you were near Newcastle I would have popped by to say hello over a coffee or beer. Definitely next time. In fact we may be there in February delivering web accessibility training courses so perhaps we can hook up then.
Henny