April 4, 2006

Primer roundup.

Complicated Women Just up at the main site is the latest addition to our collection of primers, "Pre-Code Hollywood," written by San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle, author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood and Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man. Related online listening tip: Movies With Mick LaSalle, a regular podcast.

Other recent additions to the collection, if you missed those little red New!s over on the side there, are "TV Box Sets," from the Vidiots of TeeVee (and if you missed their April Fool's do-over, for heaven's sake, don't miss it now), "Road Movies," by Mix contributing editor Heather Johnson, and "Wuxia," by Mark Pollard, founder of the excellent Kung Fu Cinema.

Posted by dwhudson at April 4, 2006 11:56 AM

Comments

From:

http://www.misszoot.com/2006/03/ill_join_the_ranks_in_wanting.php


When you are blocking his IP address, are you using the *?

If the first comment comes from 203.160.1.37 and the next one comes from 203.160.1.38 ... then go into your configuration and block 203.160.1.*

This will block every IP address he has access to on his current connection. Eventually he will run out of IPs.

When you sent me the IP list (and thank you) I went thru and blocked every IP address + every IP address with the * replacing the last number.

I was getting hit with 200+ spams a day and I think I have only one or two in the past month.

Just a thought.

Posted by: Jerry Lentz at April 9, 2006 9:50 PM

Many thanks for this, Jerry.

It's a real problem. I've had helpful advice from you and others on what to do about this, but we have a sort of unusual situation in that my access to the backend over there in San Francisco from over here in Berlin is somewhat limited.

Naturally, I've considered many, many times simply shutting down the comments altogether. I'd rather install a system in which comments must be approved before they're posted (a la Cinematical's, say), but I haven't had a chance yet to look into how that might be implemented.

In the meantime, many thanks again.

Posted by: David Hudson at April 10, 2006 3:14 AM