You blog? then better ask your boss

The post says employed bloggers should be careful about blog content, because a boss may not like what is published. It also mentions a warning about “Abuse-Copyright Infringement” tied to comments on the blog and says the author spent half a day reading and deleting many comments. After that, it explains a Movable Type change for handling comment spam more easily by adding a delete link directly into the email notification.

Reading notes

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• The author warns that people who have jobs need to be careful about what they publish on their blog, because the boss may not like the content.
• He reports having received a “Abuse-Copyright Infringement” notice because of comments on the blog and says he had to spend half a day reading and deleting several of them.
• The text says he follows Tip No. 6 of the “seven quick steps to spam-free blog”.
• The technical section presents a Perl change in the file lib/MT/App/Comments.pm to handle comment spam.
• The change puts in the email a link that goes directly to the “Delete comment? [Yes/No]” page in Movable Type.
• The text notes that this page closes the browser window after the click, so the link should be opened in a separate or empty window.