I've been hit with a few dozen pieces of comment spam -- very sneaky stuff this time, all clearly meant to foil mt-blacklist -- and some rather nasty comments, which you may or may not hear about from another blogger. I've tried turning off the comments, which hasn't always worked.
Completely swamped today with grading, and the onslaught doesn't let up even after next week when I get about a hundred short papers. I was planning to write a little post about Comus's "Diana" (the next "Your New Favorite Song") but didn't have the energy.
Anyhow -- hopefully I'm not just opening the floodgates to more spammers or worse, hackers -- I've opened up a bulletin board. It may end up being a dry run for one of my classes in the fall, as an alternative to having them all write blogs, but for now it's open (I think) to the public, i.e., you, dear readers. (You'll have to register to post, though.) I don't expect much traffic anyway.
(I wrote "I think" because I'm still fiddling with permissions -- is it so obvious now that I'm procrastinating with grading? But I was grading finals till 1 a.m. last night, so I deserve a break before I correct another batch tonight.)
Posted by the wily filipino at May 19, 2004 09:25 PM