Hi all,
<commercial> you have no idea what to buy as a Christmas present? I wrote a blog entry to solve that.</commercial> ;)
As last year I wrote a short blog entry with some Free Software releated books as a suggestion http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=399 for you. Hope it helpful.
If yes you can vote for it on fsdaily http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Good_Free_Software_related_books_as_a_present.
Best wishes, Matthias
Matthias Kirschner wrote:
As last year I wrote a short blog entry with some Free Software releated books as a suggestion http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=399 for you. Hope it helpful.
I tried to ask this on the blog article's comments, but blogs.fsfe.org is using the *AWFUL* "Dave's Spam Karma 2" (users of that eye-watering website-crippling plugin should be reincarnated as tinned meat - that would be spam _karma_) so I don't know whether it will appear there, so I repost it here:
Does anyone know a bookzilla-like site with cheaper UK delivery? I don't want to support Amazon's 1-click patent attempt and alleged poor distribution centre worker treatment but EUR 7.50 shipping for a UK-published book to round-trip to Germany is painful two ways.
I looked around for a responsible UK bookseller but there doesn't seem to be a general one. Who's best? (Who's worst?)
Thanks for any tips,
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:58:37PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
I looked around for a responsible UK bookseller but there doesn't seem to be a general one. Who's best? (Who's worst?)
Save some trees and get a second hand book, for that purpose I've used abebooks.co.uk (which is mostly a marketplace for smaller book sellers).
-- kuno.
Hi MJ,
* MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop [2009-11-30 23:58:37 +0000]:
I tried to ask this on the blog article's comments, but blogs.fsfe.org is using the *AWFUL* "Dave's Spam Karma 2" (users of that eye-watering website-crippling plugin should be reincarnated as tinned meat - that would be spam _karma_) so I don't know whether it will appear there, so I repost it here:
I approved your comment now. Do you know a better solution for avoiding spam in the comments? I enabled it after I recevied about 15 e-mails a day with Wordpress Blog comment spam.
Best wishes, Matthias
2009/12/1 Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org:
Hi MJ,
- MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop [2009-11-30 23:58:37 +0000]:
I tried to ask this on the blog article's comments, but blogs.fsfe.org is using the *AWFUL* "Dave's Spam Karma 2" (users of that eye-watering website-crippling plugin should be reincarnated as tinned meat - that would be spam _karma_) so I don't know whether it will appear there, so I repost it here:
I approved your comment now. Do you know a better solution for avoiding spam in the comments? I enabled it after I recevied about 15 e-mails a day with Wordpress Blog comment spam.
I find moderation plus Akismet does the job really nicely on my Wordpress blogs. Akismet is a distributed spam-spotting service, so you can block spam that's never hit you personally. YMMV of course, but I have had extremely few false positives, and none that I can recall in the last year or two.
- d.
David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/12/1 Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org:
I approved your comment now. Do you know a better solution for avoiding spam in the comments? I enabled it after I recevied about 15 e-mails a day with Wordpress Blog comment spam.
That's not so many, but still too much.
I like the look of NoSpamNX but I've not got it working reliably on multi-blog sites. I use sitewide moderation and sitewide blacklist plugins, but I can't find their homepage just now. If I don't find it soon, I'll put them on our co-op's site.
The main problems with SK2 are that it not only fails accessibility, it fails reliability, giving commenters no indication whether or not their eyetest-failed comment has passed or been rejected or whatever. It's also reportedly fairly easy for spammers to pass the eyewatering red/black reading test.
I find moderation plus Akismet does the job really nicely on my Wordpress blogs. Akismet is a distributed spam-spotting service, so
Last I saw, Akismet had a commercial use restriction. blogspam.net is a completely-free similar service. TypePadAntispam has a free software plugin but a closed server.
Hope that helps,
Thank you all for you comments until now. I have not yet understood what the big disadvantage of the current system is, and what the advantages of the others are. Until than I think I will stay with the current solution, although sometimes it might take a few hours until I can approve a comment on my weblog.
Best wishes, Matthias
Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Thank you all for you comments until now. I have not yet understood what the big disadvantage of the current system is, and what the advantages of the others are. Until than I think I will stay with the current solution, although sometimes it might take a few hours until I can approve a comment on my weblog.
Do you understand what Spam Karma 2 does?
This big disadvantages (plural!) of Spam Karma 2 are:
1. the captcha discriminates against users with disabilities, which is only sometimes illegal but always unfair;
2. the basic tests of "spamminess" easily cause a false positive because comments score spam points: - for giving an comment author URL; - for giving any other URLs; - for refusing to execute javascript; - for typing things that look a bit like HTML; - for submitting a comment too quickly after loading the page (which you might do if someone posted the entire blog entry to a list and it was a short comment); and other non-spam heuristics.
3. the RBL plugin still defaults to looking up against blbl.org - which closed in 2006 http://jamesoff.net/site/2006/09/26/ive-had-enough/ - and the opm.blitzed.org service - which I think isn't free software.
The advantages of other methods are that they are:
1. open to all;
2. tests the comment for actually being spam;
3. 100% free software.
Hope that explains,
Hi MJ,
thanks for your explanation. I now deactivated SpamKarma on my weblog. So do you suggest we should look into blogspam.net as alternative?
Best wishes, Matthias
Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
thanks for your explanation. I now deactivated SpamKarma on my weblog. So do you suggest we should look into blogspam.net as alternative?
That would be my suggested first line of attack. If you want, I can add you to our announcements list so I'll email you when our sitewide moderation and sitewide blacklist plugins are back online. (They allow Site Admins on Wordpress MU to moderate or blacklist across all blogs.) Let me know.
Hope that helps,