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OK, I give up on another spam-blocker

Too many people have reported problems getting the WP-SpamFree blocker to recognise that they are not, in fact, a spambot. So that plugin has been deleted and now I have to try and debug a 403 forbidden error that’s screwing up other stuff.

In the meantime, because I’ve become addicted to no longer wading through hundreds of spam every day, I’m enabling comment registration.

Housekeeping: Dreamwidth feed

For those who are looking to read Hoyden About Town on their Dreamwidth reading page, there’s a syndicated feed here: hoyden-about-town-feed.dreamwidth.org I’m lauredhel.dreamwidth.org, for my imaginary friends looking for my personal journal. Register and confirm your OpenID (LJ, blogspot, wordpress,… Read More ›

The dreaded Bandwidth Exceeded notice etc

The most frequent visitors here may have noticed that last month we managed to exceed our bandwidth allocation twice, requiring upgrading our webhosting bandwidth quota twice. Lauredhel and I have discussed several times over the last year or so how to fund the space, at least to the point of covering hosting costs every month. Some extra for a biennal cross-continental get-together would be gravy. Enough for an annual meet-up would be super.