I had tried to reply to this post on WinExtra, but it errored out on me. So, here's what the comment said: Blogger uses Atom feeds located at http://blogdomain/atom.xml The fact that the skins provided don't reflect this is the pain point...you'd see a link if you view sourced it:<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blue Phoenix" href="atom.xml" /> Also, get rid of that captcha (I hate those!) use ReverseDoS instead: http://angrypets.com/tools/rdos Blogging is cool and rss feeds make it even better for the reader/user; but only if blog hosts provide a mechanism for the blogger to have an RSS feed on...

I just set up CS::Blogs 1.1 on my server over here and I wanted to keep ReverseDOS going for it. So I just copied over the settings from my web.config and thought I would be gold...not so, grasshopper. The new section in the default web.config is now named memberrolesprototype so if you want to upgrade and not have to pull your hair out, keep this in mind. update: <memberrolesprototype> <ReverseDOS> <settings enabled="true" debugEnabled="false" debugKey="oink=225678" hideExceptions="true" /> [ Currently Playing : The World Has Turned and Left - Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album) (4:18) ]

I'm seeing a little trend - I delete comment spam as soon as it gets to any of my weblogs, so I don't have any hard numbers - posts that I have written about Mike's ReverseDOS sure seem to be getting targeted by comment spammers. I don't see this in the blog that has ReverseDOS installed, but instead at the one hosted on weblogs.asp.net. What they don't know is that I have comment moderation turned on, so no comments make it thru without my say so. I wonder how many layers of defense will be required before I no longer have to...