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May 20, 2004

New MT Blacklist

If you're running Movable Type version 2.661 or earlier, you should probably be aware that MT-Blacklist has been updated to fix a major bug that spammers can exploit.

If you're one of those folks I've installed Blacklist for, and you'd like me to upgrade you, just drop me a line. It's no big deal.

Although, for the record, I plan on abandoning Movable Type soon myself. It looks like I'll be switching to Powerblogs.

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Thanks for the warning. Making the upgrade was really easy.

Posted by Mark Hasty on May 20, 2004 at 6:15 PM


Why the switch?

Posted by Andrew Cory on May 20, 2004 at 7:53 PM


Well, my needs are robust enough that I'm making MT creak and groan. I need something faster and more robust and MT 3.0 doesn't have what I need. Powerblogs' software does.

It's very nice, really. Volokh uses it too.

Posted by Dean Esmay on May 20, 2004 at 8:16 PM


Why not go for Typepad? They let you have your own domain too, you know. And as it's centralized (like powerblogs), your blog's weight shouldn't be making anything creak and/or groan.

Posted by dowingba on May 20, 2004 at 8:58 PM


Well, basically, I'm liking what I see of Powerblogs. Also I like having the mamil server, the FTP server, the list server, the flexibility to install Wiki or whatever the heck else I want, etc.

Posted by Dean Esmay on May 20, 2004 at 9:42 PM


I think I upgraded but all I seem to have done was FTP one file. I hope I did it right.

Posted by Sean Hackbarth on May 20, 2004 at 11:48 PM


Thanks, Dean. This post inspired me to finally get around to installing it.

Posted by The Commissar on May 21, 2004 at 10:48 AM


 



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