From the MT-Blacklist news and information page:
11/04/2003: New version (v1.6) coming out today. See this weblog thread for more details.
In which thread is described "a fairly major bug in MT-Blacklist that prevents the program from finding recent spam."
Nervous nellie, am I? Feh.
Added the twat to the blacklist after the first attack, but now I've put the IP address (209.208.9.254, for those of you playing the home game) in the block list in MT itself. If I was a Perl hacker, I'd add some functionality allowing you to hit that, and get a pop-up asking for the location of your MT-Blacklist install to make adding it a breeze. Has the potential for abuse, but doesn't everything?
And again, I says feh.
But it wasn't found for over a week because the front-line protection was so strong. That's saying something... Anyway, its not like it's a security hole or anything. It doesn't destroy files or call you mother and tell her your dirty secrets. It's just a second-line-of-defense functionality that doesn't operate like it was designed to because of an undiscovered regression bug. You are still better off than without it.
The working version will be released in just a little bit...
Mental note: first sleep, then post.
Sorry, Jay. That probably came off as a lot more harsh than it should have done. I do appreciate your giving the plugin to the community; you're right, things would be much worse without it.
I'll go back to my crypt now.
That's what I love about trackback: making fun of me for making fun of you gets you busted by the very person who wrote the software. Insert Nelson-esque "ha ha" right here.
It'll take a while to propagate, but "TeamMurderIsAWanker.org" should be available for your surfing/redirecting pleasure by the end of the day.
Yes, dot-org. We're a fully-accredited nonprofit striving to spread the word about his wankerness.
Sorry, that should read we're a fully non-accredited Prophet striving to spread the word about his wankerosity.
Damn, black, ain't it enough you got me banging my head against the wall in frustration trying to get Debian to recognize a (supposedly) supported Lucent Winmodem in an old Gateway laptop?
Don't start twisting my words. Aaron wasn't busted. I was just giving him hell and his readers some new information...
Don't drag me into your little soiree...
No worries, Jay. Public teasing is just part of the fun around here.
True, it's mostly readers teasing me, and I don't see the fun it that, but they seem to enjoy it.
Thanks for releasing the update; I have it locked and loaded.
Oh, Jay, you didn't know; once you show up you're part of the soiree and there is no way out.
Aaron, I blame you for making that sound so scary.