This evening, we’ll be moving the blog to a new, dedicated host.

Part of this will be a change in the IP address that blog.mises.org points at. DNS may take a few hours to fully propagate, so it is possible that you will be connected to the old host.

In order to avoid comments and entries not being the same on the new system, we will be disabling comments on the current (old) system.

Once DNS has updated, and you are connected to the correct system, comments will be available as well.

If you do not get directed to the new host by approximately 9:00 PM Eastern Time, you may want to try restarting your web browser.

Update: the migration is done, and comments have been re-enabled. If you are seeing this message, you are on the correct system.

The Mises Blog will be unavailable this evening (Friday, September 29), from 9:30 PM Eastern until approximately 11:45 PM Eastern.

This is for system level upgrades.

Appologies for the inconvenience.

Some fun stats that were pulled out of the database for the blog:

38065 total comments visible,
5513 unique email addresses

66 have greater than 100 comments (by and large much greater, topping out at 1391)

This is on 5249 posts.
Well, 5250 now.

Eh? No.

The blog search has been returning incorrect results for several months now; this has been corrected, and the results returned should be fine. This has not affected the search of the main site, nor that in the header.

Thanks for your patience.

In an effort to control the volume of comment spam that gets through our filters (which weed out vast amounts already, sometimes as much as 1 every 7 seconds), we have added a Captcha setup, consisting of a security code that must be entered before a comment is posted. You need only enter the numbers from the image in the box labeled “Security Code”. This is to ensure that it is really a human posting the comment, and not a spamming program.

An example of the security code:
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I hope it is not a pain in the neck but rather that you will appreciate not bumbing into ads for magic pills and the like.

Some people making comments in the last days have received a message that it has to be approved to protect from objectionable content. This is not an owner decision but the result of a bug in the anti-spam measure we are using. We have no intention of denying any comments that are intelligent and civil. Please be patient as we hack together a fix. In the meantime, it only means a slight delay before your comment appears.

(edited 2005-02-06 1617 EST)
A new anti-spam plugin is being used, and more information about it will be posted in the near future, once it is closer to finished. See Below for more information.

Unfortunately, the current system will not tell the user if their comment has been denied. If you submit a comment, and believe that it has been wrongfully denied(with no message saying it was held for moderation,) please email me the comment at mises@tinfoilhats.org — and I will adjust the rules to avoid that.

The rules currently in use have been tested throughly on the current database of nearly 10,000 comments, and have been adjusted to ensure that no legitimate comments already posted will trigger a denial or moderation.

Please understand that the anti-spam system is very much under development, and may have some issues remaining. Again, please report those to mises@tinfoilhats.org . Proper notifications will be added in the near future.

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the new anti-spam engine (or even better, I hope you never notice it).