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  You know, if my Page Rank™ wasn't so high, I probably wouldn't have to do
                        this. Ah, the price of fame …

I decided to scrap the Obligatory Email Notification here at The Boston
Diaries. I modified the script a few months ago [1] to record the nefarious
abuses of that script, and now, I've decided that enough is enough. The only
people who are [DELETED-using-DELETED] abusing the script (and there are
currently 200 or so fake requests awaiting verification) are spammers
(especially this past month—the crap I've seen being submitted makes me think
it's related to a rather sophisticated spamming attack [2]).

Now, I haven't scrapped the email notification entirely—all who are currently
subscribed (all six of you) will still receive email notifications of updates
here, but I'm not accepting any new signups.

And I've gone ahead and replaced the Obligatory Email Notification section of
the sidebar with Obligatory Twitter Updates [3]—updates from my stupid
Twitter trick [4] from a few days ago. Because, you know, you can never have
too much extraneous crap cluttering up the blog.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/05/08.1
[2] http://blog.spinn3r.com/2007/07/post-mortem-of-.html
[3] https://boston.conman.org/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/07/18.2

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