# You blog? then better ask your boss

> Markdown version of https://brajeshwar.com/2003/you-blog-then-better-ask-your-boss/ — 2003-10-29

Do you blog? And are you employed? Be careful your boss may not like what you blog, this guy got fired (<a href="http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/of_blogging_and.html">read actual thread</a>) because he <a href="http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/even_microsoft_.html">wrote something</a> on his blog that his company do not like. Similarly, better be careful with your blog content and follow your web-host's rules and regulation. I got a warning of "Abuse-Copyright Infringement" because of some of the comments on this blog. I had to spend half a day reading all comments and deleting many of them. Right now, I am following the Tip No. 6 of of the seven quick steps to spam-free blog.

For the archive sack, here is the Step No. 6.

<strong>Reasoning</strong> : One of the reasons that comment spam is such a pain is that it takes several clicks through MT's interface to get rid of a single post. If you could kill a spam easily as soon as it appeared, their effectiveness would be reduced dramatically, with the hopeful aim of deterring spammers entirely.

<strong>The fix </strong>: This is another Perl insert, this time into the file lib/MT/App/Comments.pm (about line 150):

```perl
$Text::Wrap::cols = 72;
$body = Text::Wrap::wrap('', '', $body) . "\n$link_url\n\n" .
   $app->translate('IP Address:') . ' ' . $comment->ip . "\n" .
   $app->translate('Name:') . ' ' . $comment->author . "\n" .
   $app->translate('Email Address:') . ' ' . $comment->email . "\n" .
   $app->translate('URL:') . ' ' . $comment->url . "\n\n" .
   $app->translate('Comments:') . "\n\n" . $comment->text . "\n";
$body .= "\nTo delete this comment, click this link:\n".
   $app->{cfg}->CGIPath . "mt.cgi?__mode=delete_confirm&" .
   "_type=comment&id=".$comment->id ."&blog_id=" . $blog->id ."\n";
MT::Mail->send(\%head, $body);
```

It inserts a link into the mail that, when followed, jumps straight to the "Delete comment? [Yes/No]" page in MT (though, irritatingly, this page will close the browser window after you've hit the button, so you'll want to ensure the page appears in a spare/new window when you click on the link).