All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Any luck getting to the settings after setting can_configure to false?

Posted by MacManX on 27 February 2005 @ 11pm

Absolutely. All is well. As of now, its blocked at least 10 referrers and blacklisted 5. I think one got identified incorrectly, so I switched it. Very simple.

Posted by Bryan on 27 February 2005 @ 11pm

Did you set it false and use a password? No matter what I do (including use a password), I always get this blasted error message telling me to either set it to true or use a password.

Posted by MacManX on 28 February 2005 @ 12am

Yeah, that’s exactly what I did. Perhaps delete and try again?

Posted by Bryan on 28 February 2005 @ 7am

Tom figured out my short-sighted problem. I was trying to enter =**password** rather than just =password. I can’t wait to see my nice clean stats tomorrow morning.

Posted by MacManX on 28 February 2005 @ 7am

Oh!

On a side note, you keep getting into moderation. Your word list gets you into moderation more than anyone else!

Posted by Bryan on 28 February 2005 @ 8am

That’s why I removed “ass” from the list in my latest revision. It catches all words with “ass”, including password, assistance, passion, etc.

Posted by MacManX on 28 February 2005 @ 11am

Thanks James! Perhaps you can add a changelog type thing at the top of that file? That’d be awesome.

Posted by Bryan on 28 February 2005 @ 3pm

No need to do a change log. Just delete your mod list and copy/paste the new list. Or, diff the two files. ^_^ I’ll try to remember to email you whenever I post a new one.

Posted by MacManX on 28 February 2005 @ 10pm

If I’m the only one using it, don’t worry about it. I’ll check it manually - I’d hate to think I’m putting you out.

Perhaps you can put it as a subpage in your Codex profile? Just modify the date everytime you change it?

Posted by Bryan on 28 February 2005 @ 10pm

That’s a nice idea. I’ll let you know via email if I do it. I don’t want to take your comments any further off-topic than they’ve already gone. ^_-

Posted by MacManX on 28 February 2005 @ 11pm

Cool, thanks James.

Posted by Bryan on 1 March 2005 @ 12am

I’ve written a paper covering comment and referrer spam. where I look at Referrer-Karma. It seems like a neat solution but I’m worried that it could be used to stage a Denial of Service attack against a server. This would be fairly easy to set up… just run a script that sends referrer URLs of big web pages to a server with RK installed. RK will have to parse those pages in order to check referrer URLs.

Posted by David George on 11 March 2005 @ 3pm

Thanks for dropping by and mentioning that. I’m not too good with all that code and stuff, but I definitely think you should mention that to dr Dave and get his thoughts on it. (I’ll try to read that paper thoroughly and see if I can get a grasp on what you were saying.)

Posted by Bryan on 11 March 2005 @ 3pm