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Trackback is Back 22 Jul 2006 | 05:37 am
You may have noticed that the trackback functionality of the blog system has been disabled for some time now. We have been engaged in an epic struggle with spammers, and while most of the spammy track...
Yet Another Distributed Attack by a Spammer 9 Apr 2006 | 07:55 am
We had another spammer target the system; this time targeting comments. We've blocked the spammer and cleaned his comments from the database. If you receive email notifications of new comments on your...
Trackback Temporarily Disabled 7 Apr 2006 | 04:31 pm
Trackback is temporarily disabled. A spammer has targetted us with a distributed attack. (We're currently having a little fun with him at his expense.) Trackback should be turned back on shortly.
We're Back! 18 Nov 2005 | 05:20 pm
And a little wary. Things might be a little rough around the edges as we finish getting the new software environment up to snuff.
Intermittent Failures 16 Nov 2005 | 08:31 am
The server running the Case Blogging System (and it's sister site, the Case Wiki) is experiencing intermittent failures. The symptoms of the failures reveal themselves most prominently as the front pa...
Requesting Feedback 11 Oct 2005 | 05:07 am
We've created an area on the Case Wiki to begin collecting ideas, requests, what-have-you on improvements to be made to the Case Blog system. Specifically, areas of the system that need improvements t...
Weblogs Being Deleted 4 Oct 2005 | 04:23 pm
There is an error in the blog system that is causing weblogs to be deleted. As of rate now, we have had three user reports of this. Engineers are tracking down the problem, and we hope to have it fixe...
Alumni Access to the Case Blog System 22 Jul 2005 | 07:31 am
Alumni have been granted access to the Case Blogging system! As of right now, this is on an experimental basis; so we can determine what load increases this incurs on the server, man-hours, and suppor...
Trackback is Back On... This Time, We Mean It 14 Jul 2005 | 05:47 pm
Okay, Trackback is back on; and this time we're serious. We have (for the time being) conquered the spammers (die, spammers, die). If you notice a inordinate amount of Trackback spam on your blog, ho...
Trackbacks (Once Again) Turned Off 14 Jul 2005 | 09:47 am
For those keeping score at home, Trackback has, once again, been turned off for the time being.
