HEEEEEEEEEEELP!

Posted in Red Whine on May 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)

Anyone? Please help?

As I'm typing this, I'm being spammed to death. As in, one unsolicited, vile !@#$%^&* spam per every 30 seconds or so. Really, I'm not kidding.

Oh, my Spam police are SO fired.

I used to wield off the spammers by merely going into the comment e-mail (in this case, Horde) and then just clicking on the MT-Blacklist link from there. Once at Blacklist, I could then delete and blacklist comments and trackbacks to my heart's content.

Since early this morning, however, every time I got to the MT-Blacklist site and kindly and oh-so-willingly offered up a spam for them to kill, they diss me with the following error message: "Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes."

Uhhh, what?

So, now I'm stuck. I can't kill them as they're coming in, so now they're coming in as if I don't even have a blacklist.

PLEASE help! Because as you can see, after nearly a year of blogging, I'm STILL clueless about these more technical aspects of it!

On the bright side...

... at least now I kinda know what it feels like to be one of those bloggers who get a comment every few seconds.

Who am I kidding? Getting flooded with spam is NOTHING like being flooded with fan mail!

So, please help?

Yours in complete desperation,
Red.

Update: Redsaid's resident Web Goddess, Emily, FIXED it! Thank you, oh my personal heroine for taking the byte out of the spam!

9 Comments

bookstorediva said:

Red Dahling, I wish I could help, I am as clueless ass you are. Is there an online support thing? I was starting to wonder about the "video anal sex" thing.

May 12, 2005 9:50 PM

emily said:

I fixed it for you. It turns out that your blacklist had too many duplicate entries, so I deleted it and reloaded it. Got rid of about 1000 superfluous entries. So... all under control now. Kill spam, babe.

May 12, 2005 10:14 PM

eKapa said:

emily: u're hired ;-)

May 13, 2005 6:13 AM

martha said:

yay for spam killers!!!

May 13, 2005 9:04 AM

pylorns said:

Evil Spam.

May 13, 2005 9:10 AM

kat said:

someone should invent an anti-spam spray...just spray it on your computer and watch spammers fall dead...ya know, something like raid.

May 13, 2005 12:57 PM

Annika said:

As your fan, I have clearly been lax in my commenting. I promise to be better! (Oh, who am I kidding? I never keep my promises. But I do love you!)

May 13, 2005 4:55 PM

miked said:

well I'm glad to see you got everything all fixed up. Me? I'm leaving MT for good. *crosses arms and sticks out bottom lip*

That's right, I'm fed up. I have a moxie girl working on moving me to EE

I'm so excited.... Eeeeeeeee (that's me screaming like a school girl)

May 14, 2005 12:47 PM

food junkie said:

What does spam stand for?
Special Personal Amorous Messages?!!!!

June 7, 2005 5:51 AM

is a South African girl living in South Africa. That doesn't sound very original, we know, but you might find it remotely interesting when you learn that she has only recently returned to South Africa for the first time after a nine year, one month and two week (non-stop!) stint in the United States where she accidentally became an outlawed alien (also known, especially in immigration circles, as an 'illegal immigrant.' We prefer the term 'outlawed alien' ourselves). During her reversed exile from her homeland, she kept herself occupied by winning this website (but only after shamelessly bribing the judges) and thus being unleashed on the web where she slowly, leisurely became the World's Laziest Blogger; by being a nanny and by attending sci-fi conventions in search of other aliens. In the US, she also made her sailing debut, her international acting debut, tried and failed to learn the piano, and never learned to cook. She is hopelessly addicted to coffee, dogs (especially Labrador Retrievers), how-to books (with a particular fondness for her copy of the Time/Life A - Z Medical Encyclopedia), and she tends to grossly overuse parentheses (we're not kidding) during her attempts at writing, which you may - if you really have masochistic tendencies - subject yourself to by reading the words to the right of this column. If you REALLY and truly STILL want to know more, you can read her C.V. here.
Or you can ~~stalk her~~ send her some love via e-mail at: redsaid[AT]gmail[DOT]com

The Wish List (Because yes, she really does need more how-to books. Honestly!)

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food junkie : What does spam stand for? Special Personal Amorous Messages?!!!!... [go]
miked : well I'm glad to see you got everything all fixed up. Me? I'm leaving MT for good. *crosses arms and... [go]
Annika : As your fan, I have clearly been lax in my commenting. I promise to be better! (Oh, who am I kidding... [go]
kat : someone should invent an anti-spam spray...just spray it on your computer and watch spammers fall de... [go]
pylorns : Evil Spam.... [go]
martha : yay for spam killers!!!... [go]
eKapa : emily: u're hired ;-)... [go]
emily : I fixed it for you. It turns out that your blacklist had too many duplicate entries, so I deleted i... [go]
bookstorediva : Red Dahling, I wish I could help, I am as clueless ass you are. Is there an online support thing? I ... [go]