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July 12, 2005
Talked out of it
Dave talked me out of getting rid of MT. According to him, his "flurry" of spam comments equaled some number less than 10, so I don't think I'll have a problem with that.
The key to the whole process is something called MT-close which closes posts to comments that are older than 'x' days. So, basically I have to cut off for comments certain age posts. I have decided that anything that is off the first page (2 weeks old) will be closed for comments. I don't think I have ever gotten a legitimate comment on something that was several months old, so I think this is pretty fair.
Unfortunately, I have to do a little rework to get this to work. MT-close requires that you are using MySQL and I am currently using the BerkeyDB to do my back-end stuff. So I need to take down the blog and do some maintainence to make the change-over. I want to do it this week and I'll probably do it at night (my time), so I doubt anyone will be affected, but just as a heads up.
Posted by Michael at July 12, 2005 03:36 PM