Wow! Now that I've set "Check e-mail addresses?" to "No" the Captchas actually work, and I have to enter the correct code or the comment won't get posted. Interesting :-). And great. Thanks Garvin, and Ian of course. And sorry Don - I took a little break from the software business two years ago and ...

guys, you are so awesome

Ok, I set "Check e-mail addresses?" to "No" now. Let's see how this changes things.
Btw, I am now anchored next to a boat named ... "Serendipity". Hehe

all the best -xl

Hello Ian,

thanks for checking it out. Yep, cruising on a boat is really nice. Except for having to hunt for wifi networks. I have updated both blogs to 1.5.5 now, same behavior. I hadn't used a spam protector service so far. Now I have TypePad Antispam activated, but I still get spam comments for ...

Timbalu, Garvin,

thanks so much for your reply. I am traveling at the moment and have no permanent internet connection, so it takes me a while to read/check/respond. Also my webspace has no MySQL and I'm using SQLite and can't check the tables without downloading the whole file. Which is happening ...

Hi guys,

I have Serendipity 1.5.5 and PHP 5.2.16. All required files verified. All files transferred in binary mode.

Since two days ago I get suddenly flooded with comment spam, so I turned on the Spam Protector plugin. But it behaves a little crazy:

a) IP block interval: seems to work. Only ...