Oh the humanity

Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Dave Winer.

I'm doing a careful review of all my servers, trying to reduce my monthly spending, and improve the durability of the sites I care about, and I'm finding some amazing things.  

For example -- each of my servers that runs Frontier automatically has a copy of the Radio Community Server installed and turned on. One of its features is that it takes weblogs.com compatible pings from (supposedly) sites in its community, by design it was supposed to also support a community of Radio users. At least that was the design, five years ago when the software shipped. Anyway, there is no community gathered around most of these servers, but they're ready if one should pop up. And the Internet being what it is in 2007, they do pop up, selling their wares, the usual stuff that spammers are interested in. 

Of course now that I know, I'm shutting them all off.  

Here's a screen shot.