I just tried to post over on the BA's Blog site, but I got a nifty little message saying that I'd been flagged as a spammer(?). What's up with this? I only spam I've ever had anything to do with is the kind you fry up with eggs!

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It's either another bug in this release or you're on a dynamic IP address, and a spammer on your network tried to attack the system.

In the second case, the solution is to shut down your machine (not just reboot) and start it up again so that your IP resets itself to something different.

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You fry spam with eggs? Ugh, I think that's a bannable offense right there

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Nope, I have a static IP (direct cable link).


Hey, that's yummy stuff there! However, I rarely eat it anymore...it's loaded with bad fats and salt...not good for anyone (but still yummy!).

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I will not eat fried eggs & spam, I do not like them Sam I am!

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But would you eat them with a dog, or over on the BA's Blog?

I would, I could, I really should...but posting there I can not do. "Spam I Am" is just not true!

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I should not eat them with a dog, I should not eat them reading a blog.

I should not eat them, its not my fault, the doc says no, to fats and salt.

I should not eat the spam and eggs, it can cause clots in heart and legs.

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Oh BA Plait, please hear her plight
She cannot post on your blog tonight.
It really shocks me to the core
This dreadful predicament of N C More!

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yes, i got the same spammer flag message a few weeks ago.

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Shutting down isn't necessary. All that does is leave you disconnected a little longer so, hopefully, the last IP you had got reassigned to someone else in the mean time.

There is another, far easier way to accomplish the same thing in Windows XP:

1) Click [START] then [RUN] and type "CMD" in the dialog box. Click [OK]
2) At the prompt, type "ipconfig /release" (without quotes)
3) Wait some reasonable amount of time
4) At the prompt, type "ipconfig /renew" (without quotes)
5) Close the CMD window

This will get you a new IP address, assuming one is available and you are on DHCP. It won't harm anything if you're not. No rebooting required.

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Phil's blog is protected by a (really nifty) anti-spam plugin made for the Wordpress platform. For the most part it's very good at distinguishing between legitimate comments and spam attempts, but once in a while visitors may be the victims of friendly fire depending on the settings and blacklist logs.

Moved from About BAUT to Bad Astronomy Stories.

I've had the same problem too. It doesn't always happen, but it is frusterating when it does.

I am surprised!! You have always seemed such a level sort. How could you do such a thing!!

I just got flagged as a spammer, too, and I won't touch the stuff. (My mom kept it in her emergency supplies, and we pointed out to her that she was pretty much condemning us to starve to death after a major earthquake.)

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I got a similar message earlier. It said the post might be reviewed by the blogger, but I should contact them by email too. Same message?

That's the one I got, anyway. (And I hadn't even complained that Phil has a wrong "its" in there somewhere!)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Following soon on the Sci-Fi channel, after The Thing, is the international debut of: The wrong "its"!

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I tried to post again today, and got the same message. However, I notice that my previous post has shown up in the comments at about the time position that I posted it--so the BA must have reviewed it, and allowed it to post. Unfortunately, its message was lost, in the shuffle. My post today only repeats what I said before, more or less, but now it's in response to today's blog.

My post yesterday did not show up in the comments. I guess you have to email each time you get the message, they're not automatically reviewed (of course?).

They should show up automatically, though some get sent to a moderatiuon queue which I do check (those are generally 50/50 spam). I am fed up with the spam filter, and I'm still planning on changing commenting systems.

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Thanks!

I was wondering if I was doing something wrong.

I was able to post to the blog today, so maybe everything is cleared up.

PS: my post to "Planetary scientists support planet definitions" eventually showed up, but the one I made to "I made a massive mistake" did not. All three make essentially the same point, though, that the moon cannot be moved far enough out by the tidal friction mechanism to take the earth/moon barycenter outside of the earth.

I am getting a load of error messages everytime I make a post, but when I go back in the post is there

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There are some issues right now. I added some phrases to the spam killer, and it freaked out, and now I can't fix it. That prompted me to try to connect the blog to BAUT again, but ran into another problem, but I'm hoping to fix that one soon too.

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If it helps these were the error messages I got when posting a comment to one of blogs

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Btw I just noticed that the link to the latest blog entry on the Bad Astro intro page is a little out of date (though this could be deliberate since it is 'the best mars picture evah'

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Yeah...I've given up on reading the blog since I can't post to it...a shame really...

Hopefully, the "connection" between this BB and the BA's blog will be made soon...

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Well, despite getting the error messages posted by Sticks above, I've found it does actually post ok, you just have to go back & refresh to see it.

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I have posted comments before and it tells me its done and nothing appears there at all! I have had a spam message once before. Now days I don't bother trying though. Maybe it doesnt like my display name..... Too dirty?? (he he)