well that was stupid of me

A while back, I finally had to go to registration-only comments due to the copious amounts of comment spam I had been receiving. Afterwards, commenting was a little slow, but considering I never really received that many comments to begin with, I was not really surprised. However, after last night, I realized a rather significant problem with the whole set up.
In poking through my weblog’s activity logs (a good idea for any weblog administrator), I noticed that Mr. Perri Nelson was having a devil of a time trying to log in and comment. He tried logging in, in tried re-registering, he tried recovering his password, and apparently nothing was working. Since I log in with my administrator privileges whenever I comment, I had not really noticed anything, so I logged out, cleared my cookies and temporary internet files, and tried registering a test-run commenter name.
And then I found the problem.
To register locally at this weblog as a commenter, you have to have a valid email address, and then the system is supposed to email you a confirmation document, including a link, which will then activate your commenter username. My system never sent out that email, beacuse I, in my infinite stupidity, never told it what email address to send it from. Righto.
However, the situation has been fixed, the system now knows to send out its little registration confirmation email from weblog (funny-little-”at”-symbol) wallsofthecity.net (so be sure to add that address to your spam filters, if you need to), and everything should actually be working now. The weblog has been supporting OpenID, LiveJournal (with varying degrees of success, as reported by DirtCrashr), Vox, and TypeKey logins ever since I switched over to reigstered-only commenting, but now it really should allow you to register locally with this weblog, should you feel so inclined – honest.
Oh, and thanks Mr. Nelson, one last time.
And, as usual, all spammers should die horrific, terrifying, excruciating, demeaning, atrocious, inhuman deaths. Right now, if it would be convenient. I mean, for Heaven’s sake, since this weblog’s inception, and as of 1224 today, I have received 17762 trackback spams alone, not counting all of the comment spams I deleted. That is just absurd, and nowhere near the count on some weblogs, I am sure.
(If, however, the commenting system continues not to work, please drop me a line at “linoge (funny-little-”at”-symbol) wallsofthecity.net” and let me know.)