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November 14, 2005

Blogging 101Movable Type 3.2, banish ye, foul trackbacks

I'm in love. The drugs, the porn, the casinos –- those days are over.

We upgraded the General Motors' blogs about a month ago, and the difference is amazing. With the Movable Type 3.2 upgrade, the trackback spam goes right into a tidy, aptly named "junk" folder. No more cringing in fear each morning to see if *&^% and @#&& made it into trackbacks.

One glitch is that the filtering seems to be hit or miss. Some junk comments still make it through the filter, but that hasn't caused a problem because we moderate the comments. At first we tried a plus two level for spam moderation, which banished all of our comments to junk land. The zero setting seems about right.

Here at BlogWorks, however, we're still at 3.17. Customers first; the BlogWorks upgrade comes next.

Posted by at November 14, 2005 01:01 PM

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