slowdog

Well, further googling around led me to a discussion where the conclusion was that wp-mail.php doesn’t work and pointed to a plug-in that does allow blogging by email instead. I’m using that instead.

Yeah, I got the warning but went ahead anyway and everything’s fine and dandy.

Thanks to Charle97. I had installed blacklist but it wasn’t stopping the texas holdem guy even though the URL was in the blacklist. Your modification to the wp-comment-post file seems to have done the trick instead, so thanks!

I’m also getting attacked by this texas holdem bot and even installing the blacklist plug-in doesn’t seem to help!

There’s a nice bit of donation-ware at https://www.kung-foo.tv/itti.php
Kung Tunes is an AppleScript application which reads the current track playing in iTunes and can also save the last x (configurable) tunes you’ve listened to. Very configurable, you can make it output any format (including php) files and even ftp them to the server. Then all you have to do is include the file, if you’ve set it up right.
Works on Apple only though.

Thanks. Although the link didn’t work for me, I went to the latest CVS by other means and took the extra bit in wp-mail.php that inserts the appropriate row into the post2cat table, which I assumed was the problem, and put it into my own wp-mail.php. It seems to have done the trick anyhow. We’ll see how it performs with extensive testing!