Why Your Movable Type Blog Must Die – The Redux

It apparently is causing massive strains on webservers
(Slashdot submission at Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT)
that webhosting companies have even resorted to disabling
Movable Type on their servers altogether. This ‘prediction’ was
noted earlier in Why Your Movable Type Blog Must Die.
Jay Allen (of the MT-Blacklist fame) has posted a full
description of the spam load issue
plaguing the widely used personal publishing tool and has
acknowledged it as a major bug in MT. Those running MT who are
getting complaints from their hosting companies might wanna try these
workarounds to combat comment spam
for now. Or use a different tool/service altogether…