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Actually, nevermind, I think I’m all good. ??

> However, if I ever get sick of 1and1 I fully intend to go back to bloghosts.com…
> those guys are fantastic, with EXCELLENT support, and pretty solid prices to boot.
I want to “me too” this. I’m running a handful of domains on BlogHosts, and have been extremely pleased with the service and support and prices.

Excellent ideas, OJ!
I’m particularly fond of numbers 3 and 6 myself ??

Anon, thanks for all the info! And Southerngal, why both, if I may ask?

Okay, can anyone help me understand the advantages of WP’s link capabilities vs. the service at blogrolling.com? In particular, can WP natively show which blogs have been updated recently and stuff like that?

Because we don’t feel like separately firing up our ftp app, selecting the right site, navigating to the appropriate folder, and then shutting down our ftp app again? ??

Well, I’m nothing if not opinionated (though in re-reading my post above, I was a bit on the brusque side — sorry!). Glad to be of help in this way ??

Ack, just realized that this means that downloading, installing, and hacking nightly builds is probably not for the un-busy. Bummer.

I am having exactly the same problem as podz. Verified the path, verified the chmod of 766… using WP 1.1.

Okay, this is something I don’t get.
Why shouldn’t WP emulate MT’s elegance / simplicity on this issue: a simple field in the config options to add other sites to ping globally.
Or am I missing something?

Ah, interesting stuff.
And definitely a good point regarding the often not-unique titles.
Along these lines, something that would seem to be cool and make sense would be a special “URL title” field, so that blog authors could affirmatively choose a reasonably short and/or unique title.
For instance, I have a goofy entry on my blog entitled “And when I sit around the house, I really sit AROUND the house.” That’d be hellishly long for a URL! And even if WP could automatically truncate it, that’d be uncool, because what use is “and-when-i-sit.” Blah.
Instead, I’d like to be able to give it a short name, like, “being-fat” so that it’d become:
/archives/2004/being-fat/
… so the URL would capture more of the essence of the post while still remaining short.
Is this already currently possible?
If not, do you think it’s something that could be easily added?
What are your thoughts about this?

Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for helping me understand how that works ??

True.
Though unfortunately, the asses who do crapflooding act not in the interest of their sites’ page rank, but rather just act to annoy or DoS their victims. So, from what I understand, they just include randomized URLs anyway ??

True. But that can be so easily obfuscated with a zillion different free ‘forwarding’ services like tinyurl.com :|.

It’s great that so many of us are on the same page, apparently!
Matt… one thing I would, however, recommend against is too much separate keyword parsing. As we know from e-mail, spammers have a remarkable tendency to alter their wording (v1agra, expand your ‘member’, f*ree, etc.), and that merely becomes an arms race. Additionally, there’s simply too much overlap in language (people joke about viagra, folks may use harsh language in non-spam comments, and so on).
Instead, I’d focus more on the behavioral / process aspects you’ve highlighted (never left approved comment before, comment on entry no longer on front page, etc.).
In terms of filtering priorities, I’d likely to humbly suggest that the e-mail / URI test is the biggest one in my opinion. Especially if we assume e-mail addresses are not publicly listed (my preference), this then becomes a user-friendly password system of sorts that would be onerous for the spammer to thwart.