Comments on: Spam, spam, spam, spam http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/spam-spam-spam-spam/ Making and Thinking About Visual Art Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/spam-spam-spam-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-11421 David Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:33:42 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/?p=953#comment-11421 <p>Janet,</p> <p>I use a Mac, too, but this site is located on the servers of an internet hosting provider. That way, the site doesn't go away when my computer isn't on.</p> <p>The program it runs on is called Wordpress. While Wordpress can run on a Mac if you set things up right, the hosting provider runs the blog using a set of Unix programs (Mac OS X is technically a version of Unix, but this is a different version known as Linux).</p> <p>The program the blog runs on does make a difference. In this case, I use a couple of different spam filtering plug-ins (add-ons to Wordpress) to reduce spam. That helps a lot, but they still get through sometimes.</p> <p>Sigh.</p> Janet,

I use a Mac, too, but this site is located on the servers of an internet hosting provider. That way, the site doesn’t go away when my computer isn’t on.

The program it runs on is called WordPress. While WordPress can run on a Mac if you set things up right, the hosting provider runs the blog using a set of Unix programs (Mac OS X is technically a version of Unix, but this is a different version known as Linux).

The program the blog runs on does make a difference. In this case, I use a couple of different spam filtering plug-ins (add-ons to WordPress) to reduce spam. That helps a lot, but they still get through sometimes.

Sigh.

]]> By: Janet http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/spam-spam-spam-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-11420 Janet Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:19:01 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/?p=953#comment-11420 <p>Wow. Everyone has to stay up on IT, even the lonely art prophet. Thanks for explaining this, and good luck. BTW, I tend to get less spam on my Mac. Does the program you use to host the blog make a difference?</p> <p>Janet, the IT-a-phobe</p> Wow. Everyone has to stay up on IT, even the lonely art prophet. Thanks for explaining this, and good luck. BTW, I tend to get less spam on my Mac. Does the program you use to host the blog make a difference?

Janet, the IT-a-phobe

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