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Posted on Apr 15, 2007 - 1:57am by John P. in Site Updates, Videos, Wordpress - 9 Replies
SPAM sucks doesn’t it? Trust me… I know. I created this video as an open message for the entire blogging community, but also specifically to help educate my own readers about some of the issues we’re facing on One Man’s Blog currently.
As the popularity of this blog has increased, so have the number of attacks from automated systems wishing to spam the comments on every single post. This can create a serious nightmare for a blogger like myself because, after all, there is only one of me.
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Posted on Mar 21, 2007 - 7:39pm by John P. in Wordpress - 15 Replies
Honestly, there is really no reason to read the history on this as the past is the past. Go get the latest version of the plugin and if you really want to stick around here how about checking out something funny.
It pains me to report this, because the Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form version 2 from Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley seems to be a nice contact form for Wordpress, but the fact remains that this plug-in is dangerous and designed to secretly Spam blogs on which it is placed.
This stems from the fact there is an option that users believe will disable the display of credit links back to the author’s web sites; however, this option does not actually remove the links. It merely makes them invisible – and this is enough to cause Google to remove a site.
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Posted on Sep 12, 2006 - 12:28am by John P. in Computing - 3 Replies
Have you noticed that Outlook’s native Spam protection is severely lacking? Well, there is a great little freeware application called SpamAware which will increase your Spam fighting abilities.
The software installs quickly and easily and works as advertised. It adds a number of new options and works with both Outlook and Outlook Express. The software is also written by a very nice guy, Joachim Marder, whom I remember helping beta test another program for many years ago called Treesize.
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Posted on Aug 31, 2006 - 10:23pm by John P. in Work - 1 Reply
What’s the most unethical thing you can do with a Business Card? Post it on Jigsaw.com.
I give Jim Fowler, CEO and co-founder, full credit for ingenuity in coming up with the idea for this site. Just like I give the first real spammers credit for creativity as well. Heck, I guess while we’re handing out credit we might as well credit Jack the Ripper for never getting caught, and throw in a little for whomever made Jimmy Hoffa disappear.
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