I have not written any new posts here in quite some time, but I have not been sitting idle.

More than a year ago, I wrote about some ebay scams that were appearing on craigslist and autotrader. Since then, a few posts on this website have been receiving one to three comments a day. The work moderating these comments grew to be such a burden, that I created a whole scam tracking website to try and handle the traffic. I am still trying to work out the details. The effort I put towards these incoming stories and comments satisfies my desire to contribute to this website, so the result seems to be less new posts.

I am committed to many other old posts, here. I recently updated my hide email code post. This source code helps you publish emails on web pages while shielding the address from most email harvesting robots. The goal is to reduce spam.

Another way to reduce spam that occurs as a result of running websites is blocking the bad robots altogether. I have written a few popular posts on that subject that have inspired some great conversation, and I respond to incoming comments on those posts regularly.