comments are fixed
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posted by tom / September 18, 2005 / 
We'd accidentally imported some overly restrictive blacklist rules that were blocking comments including, among other things, any words containing a "g" followed by three or more letters. But it's fixed now -- feel free to resume your wanton use of the offending letter. I know, I know — I'm such a pushover.
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i see how it is. bastards!
-- the g.
Nothing in particular. It was just an accident. When you filter comment spam with mt-blacklist, it tries to construct a list of URLs to add to the blacklist based on the hyperlinks found in the deleted comments and/or trackbacks. You then click "add" to import the new, ready-made blacklist entries.
But sometimes (particularly when the spammer is exploiting browser unicode support to avoid the blacklist) mt-blacklist falls down and produces garbage urls like "g...". It's very easy to accidentally import them. I'm pretty sure that's what happened in this case.
sweet, i can finally type "glow" again!
I know, it's glorious.
No need to thank me.
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