More Spam Issues
February 12, 2007
Spam continues to be a problem here at Mr Papa’s World. I recently wrote about some of the tools I use here.
In the last week or so, I have run into some serious trouble with the Bad Behavior plugin blocking good folks like me! Prior to about a week ago, it was stopping a lot of spammers from even reaching my site. This had the side benefit of saving me some bandwidth too. Then all of a sudden, it stopped being nearly as effective.
Akismet is the other piece of software I use to defeat spam. While Bad Behavior was functioning, Akismet had to do very little to stop spam since it never reached Akismet. Prior to Bad Behavior, Akismet was stopping several hundred spams a day.
Well, with Bad Behavior going on the fritz about a week ago, Akismet slowly started ramping up spam stops again. When Bad Behavior started blocking readers and then me, I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled Bad Behavior today. The Akismet spam blocks are already rising steadily throughout the day.
I guess it really doesnt matter how the spam is stopped as long as it is stopped. By getting to Akismet, it uses up a bit more bandwidth, but I seem to have plenty of that. I dont know how many “good” readers Bad Behavior stopped, but at least with Akismet, I can peruse the blocks before the stuff is removed. I didnt have that option with Bad Behavior. Of course, not sure I want to review several hundred or more spam logs a day to find a few bad blocks, but I will do it for a while to see make sure Akismet is not blocking real comments.
Bad Behavior is supposed to be releasing a new major revision to the plugin soon, so I may yet try it again.
Ebay
February 11, 2007
Suzanne has taken again to putting a bunch our old stuff up for auction on Ebay. I say old stuff because some of it is still pretty good stuff, but we just dont use it.  She has a stack of stuff to get up over the next few weeks.
Recently, she has put a bunch of old clothes of Savannah’s up for auction on Ebay.  They dont fetch very much, mabe $5 or $10, but add in shipping and a bit of quantitiy and it starts adding up. She recently sold some gnome statue piece of junk and got almost $40 for it. I wouldnt have given a second thought to throwing it in the garbage.
She also recently sold my old Franklin Mint Civil War chess set. It’s a nice set, but we have like 5 and I dont have time for Civil War stuff like I used to. We were pleasantly surprised when it sold for over $150. We got a prompt payment from the guy and she shipped it off. Unfortunately, 3 of the pieces arrived in a broken condition – gonna have to get Suzanne to work on those packing skills. The shipment was insured, so we will likely be filing a claim with the postal service. The guy receiving the shipment has been pretty good about it. We still need to resolve this one.
Now, she just needs the time to list the rest of the stuff gathered up. We have things like an nice old mp3 player, lots of old xbox and xbox 360 games, more Civil War paraphenalia. There is also some more old kids clothes. We are trying to get things straigntend up around the house. Suzanne is a pack rat and I think she is finally ready to part with stuff that never sees daylight. We wont get rich on Ebay, but the occasional bits of income will pay for a dinner or two out.
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