Woebot's comments boxes have been ramraided with spam over the last forty-eight hours and Mark Sinker is only responsible for a fraction of it. The new batch of Movabletype spammers have also worked out a way to overwrite existing blog posts via open boxes.
I've been stemming the flow, banning IP addresses, upgrading the MT application, repairing posts which were once celebrating (ahem) me and my fascinating record collection and now are advertising drugs with names like Vicodin and Levitra, and closing down all comments boxes which I've left open.
Yes that's correct non-technical person closing down comments boxes, which is a terrible shame as left open for all time they provide me with little shards of joy, like this recent contibution to an old post by Rolo who used to be in The Woodentops.
In future (sighs) only comments boxes on the index page will be open. End of announcement.
Posted by Woebot at March 20, 2004 10:22 PM