Die, Spammers, Die

Posted By on January 22, 2005 at 3:38 pm

Removing the incentive for death-deserving scumbags spammers to send comment and trackback spam will help ameliorate the problem, but only if significantly huge numbers of MT users hop on the bandwagon.
By “bandwagon,” I of course refer to the new MT plugin, nofollow.
No, I’m not going to explain what it does — the folks at SixApart have already done so.
(Via Spoons.)

Quote of the Day

Posted By on January 19, 2005 at 7:41 pm

When you flirt with death, you run the risk that death has something more serious in mind.

James Taranto, in today’s Best of the Web, the item headlined “The Jerk That Flirts With Death.”
[Hey, Jimmy — ever heard of the HTML <a name=”…”></a> tag? Highly recommended.]