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March 05, 2006
Over-Protected
Like many bloggers, I employ anti-spam software to keep adverts and other inappropriate comments off my site. Ideally my filters block comments from anyone who is trying to pedal viagra, violent sex, verificationism etc., and let through comments from legitimate readers.
But I was browsing through my list of banned strings (as one does - in the back of my mind I was thinking about something that Kenny Easwaran said a while ago - that he thought my site might be blocking comments containing the string "...") and I discovered that I'm also blocking the string "ucalgary.ca". Quite right too - we don't want any of Richard Zach's nonsense around here. But since I also discovered "uni-heidelberg.de" and "hw.ac.uk" (Herriot-Watt, fine Scottish institution that you are, I am so so sorry), and (crikey, talk about shooting myself in the foot) "web.mit.edu", I thought I'd better do some cleaning up. My sincere appologies to anyone who has tried to post a comment but been blocked by my anti-spam software. I'll keep a closer eye on it in future.
Posted by logican at March 5, 2006 07:37 PM
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Comments
I think verificationism is highly underrated!
Posted by: Richard Zach at March 6, 2006 12:44 PM
Your comment has been blocked by MT Blacklist on the grounds of: questionable content.
Posted by: Gillian Russell at March 6, 2006 05:18 PM
My anti-spam software is inexistent!
Posted by: Giovani at March 29, 2006 07:19 PM
According to Michael Loux, Dummett has just been pedaling verificationism all these years (see Loux's paper in the Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics). So is Dummett blocked?
Posted by: Aidan at March 29, 2006 09:47 PM
No - despite my jokes about the V-word, even Dummett isn't blocked. (Unless he's reinvented himself as a pedler of porn and viagra, of course, in which case he can comment qua philosopher but not qua pornographer or pharmacist.)
Posted by: Gillian Russell at March 29, 2006 09:59 PM
Hot verificationism pics! Verify Inc bebt consolidation. Burn that synthetic a priori!
Posted by: Timothy J Scriven at April 7, 2006 04:30 AM