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You had to know this was coming … Spammeristas

Started by Randy · 10 months ago

It appears the spammeristas have found my new DNS under the new service.  One of the reasons I went back to TypePad is that they have a great service called TypeKey where users register once and they can use that registration to login to blogs all across the sphere.  Most of the to ... Continue reading »

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  • Jack Yan

    3 years ago

    I prefer the TypeKey authorization to WordPress’s one, which only works on the particular site you sign up to. So far I think I have only signed up for three WordPress sites (run by friends).
       The spammers are quick to find you because their robots follow links, and ETC is a well linked site.
       Blogger is pretty hopeless, so I have had to approve each message. It slows things down, sadly, but until they create filters it is probably the only way out for me for the time being.
       I don’t mind signing on to TypeKey—it’s fairly easy to do, and it’s nice to be unmoderated!
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  • Randy

    3 years ago

    Hey Jack, I was surprised to see you are still with blogger. You are a serious blogger with all that html and tagging you do, it would seem that blogger makes that very difficult. I love WordPress for it's power (they have a free blog service too) but I switched backt to TypePad because of cost and honestly, I don't need so many options. I spent way way way to much time tinkering with the code and plugins instead of enjoying blogging.

    I like TypePad because it is built on MT. MT is also very powerful and clean (code wise.)
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  • Jack Yan

    3 years ago

    Hi Randy: I stuck with Blogger really due to a decision made in 2003 by some colleagues, when we began the Beyond Branding Blog. I don’t believe the others were as popular then. When I started my own blog, the BBB was still running and I didn’t want to go into two different interfaces. One of these days I might switch, but I lack the computer expertise to implement either TypePad or WordPress alone.
       I see some great blogs on Moveable Type, so I would definitely vouch for it as a visitor of those blogs.
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  • Randy

    3 years ago

    Understandable Jack. I can tell you this though, if I can survive the transition... anyone can :).
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