I have been having trouble lately getting our blogroll to load. The main column seems fine, but the site seems to get stuck towards the end of the upload, leaving the blogroll off.

Anything I can do about that?

-Robert the Llama Butcher

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Any interest in a debate party in the Mu.Nu Chat? The debate starts at 9:00. Stop by and vent, rant or cheer. I would offer to supply refreshments but this going to have be strictly BYOB for logistical reasons. This will also be a clothing optional event.

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This is a followup to the earlier primer that described what Blacklist does. Now it’s time to actually put it to work.

First, let's make sure it is turned on for your blog.

Go to http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-blacklist.cgi If you’re not already logged in, you’ll be asked for your blog's username and password. Enter it. You’ll be brought to a screen as shown below. Click on the box labelled Configure.

This is the next screen you’ll see. You want to make sure that there is a checkmark in both the Comments and Trackbacks boxes. (you'll likely only see the title of your own blog, not the several that you see in this screenshot.) Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save Configuration.

Once you’ve done that, your blog is ready to take advantage of Blacklist’s automatic protection capabilities.

The majority of spam should get blocked before it reaches you, but if you find that your blog has received a number of spam comments (if it’s just 1 or 2, it’s just as easy to go into your admin page and delete them from there), you’re going to want to get into the Blacklist again, either by using the address you used earlier, or by clicking the De-spam link at the bottom of one of the comment notification emails you received. When you get to the Blacklist page, you’re going to click on the De-Spam button, which will take you to the page shown below. (If you got to the page via the link at the bottom of an email, you'll be taken directly to the De-spam page.)

Here, you can set the number of recent comments to check. I usually ask it to go through the last 2500, to be sure. It’s also worth asking it to check the last 15,000 or so the first time you do this - and only the first time, as it really stresses the server - in case you’ve got old spam comments hiding from a long time ago. (We're talking about the last n comments on all of MuNu, so that's why the search number needs to be so high). Once your number's entered, click Search.

If it finds any comments which it has been taught are spam, it will list them on the page, and give you the option of un-checking any that you actually want to keep (a good security feature). Once you’ve decided which to delete, tell Blacklist to get rid of them, and it will also rebuild the entries that need it.

If you have a whack of spam, but the Blacklist doesn’t find it, and you’re not thoroughly familiar with how to create new entries in the Blacklist, you can just wait a couple hours, and come back and try again. It’s entirely possible that in the meantime, an experienced user will have encountered it as well, and will have created entries that will let Blacklist find & clean yours. (Pixy is famous for doing this incredibly well) I’ve got some ideas for how to increase the likelihood of that happening, but that’s for another post.

So there are the the basic steps in the arcane art of the Blacklist. If anything's unclear, be sure to ask.

Paul

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1 Thanks Paul! Great job!

I've updated our blacklist with the latest entries from the master list. One thing to look forward to in MT 3 is that MT Blacklist will do this automagically.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 30, 2004 10:48 AM (+S1Ft)

2 Try not to overdo the searching-15,000-comments thing, though, because that really slows the server down.

Once we're on the new server that won't matter so much. Unless four of you do it at the same time. :p

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 30, 2004 01:11 PM (+S1Ft)

3 Added a wee edit to make that point clearer, Pixy. Thanks.

Posted by: Light & Dark at September 30, 2004 05:49 PM (eT6wp)

4 Thank you, Paul! I really appreciate your help!

Posted by: Linda at October 01, 2004 03:55 PM (mmKG+)

5 Excellent job, PaulT. Gonna go see if I'm registered right now... farkin' spambot prOn rat bastards....

Posted by: Tuning Spork at October 02, 2004 10:37 PM (4i/ez)

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Since Linda & others have asked, this is just a quick backgrounder for Munuvians trying to get their heads around what Blacklist is and does.

Blacklist is a piece of code, or ‘plug-in’ that is installed into the core of Moveable Type to help block comment spam. Because it’s installed into the core of MT (not on individual blogs), its settings affect every blog at MuNu. And therein lies its greatest strength and its greatest weakness.

If a spam comment is received by one of us, and an appropriate entry made into the Blacklist as a result, any further attempts to add similar comments to any other MuNu blog will be automatically blocked. That’s good.

It also means that if a spammer dumps a huge amount of junk on us at once, before we have time to alert Blacklist to the problem, we can still retroactively add an appropriate entry to the Blacklist, then tell Blacklist to go back and look at all the last 1000 (or however many) comments, and automatically delete any that it finds that match the new criteria we just added, so we don’t have to delete them all by hand. That’s also good. more...

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Well, it came down to a bigger, faster server at our existing hosting company, Liquid Web, or an also bigger and faster but not quite as bigger and faster server at another company, Server Matrix.

Liquid Web kindly helped me make my decision by hiking up their prices twice in the past month. The Liquid Web server ended up at $350 setup and $339 per month, compared to the Server Matrix server at $199 setup and $219 per month. The Liquid Web server was nicer in some ways, but not $120 a month worth of nicer.

So, stats of the new server:

Dual Xeon 2.4GHz with HyperThreading™
1GB ECC memory (ECC = extra crunchy)
2 x 200GB disks (mirrored)
1500GB bandwidth per month
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CPanel & Fantastico
Urchin web analyser thingy

Although they specify 2.4GHz processors, that's really a minimum, and if we're lucky we'll get 2.8's instead. Also, they have HyperThreading™ so it looks like a quad-processor machine instead of just a dual-processor machine. In reality, it's only 10% or 20% faster, but every bit counts.

Now I get to play with my new toy for a while before I start moving people across. :D

Oh, and I think I've solved the problem with future bandwidth growth: The secret is reverse proxies.

Update: The folks at Server Matrix just called. They're setting up our server now. :D

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My chickens, I need some help.

First off, I am sick and bloody tired of comment spambots, and I want to close all posts older than 2 weeks. I can't keep deleting 300 comments a morning. It's whipping me. Does anyone know of a code (and where to put the code) to automatically do that?

Also, a pc question-I just replaced the fan in my pc, and now it shuts itself down (not just on standby, but actually closed down). Any ideas on how/where to change this on the settings, so that it will stop doing this?

Thanks!
-Helen

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1 Comment spam and the MT plug-in to close comments were touched on here. I haven't looked into it myself, but it may start you in the right direction.

Posted by: Jennifer at September 29, 2004 02:33 PM (lLwcM)

2 I have a question for the more techie types among us... I've only got 5-6 spammed comments the entire time I've been with MuNuviana... what causes one site to get 300 a day and another site to get virtually zero... is it the site content... is it something in the spambot code that makes it attack a site after it finds a "hole" - if so, why not more followup spam to the ones I did get... anyway, just asking for my own edumacation.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at September 29, 2004 03:15 PM (Ql9J6)

3 I dunno, Bartender, but I'm with Helen. Spambot activity has been picking up over at my place, too. I'd like to know where that code gets posted in the template, and I'd like to understand Blacklist better, too.

Posted by: Linda at September 29, 2004 05:49 PM (mmKG+)

4 I came across a patch that might be helpful at: http://www.bloviatinginanities.com/archives/003211.php

The script is supposed to automatically close comments in older posts.

Posted by: Random Penseur at September 29, 2004 07:30 PM (LlPKh)

5 Sorry, that was duplicative! My bad.

Posted by: Random Penseur at September 29, 2004 07:30 PM (LlPKh)

6 I've been getting hit with spambots lately. Only about 4 a week, but it's enough to sympathize with Helen.

Posted by: Tom at September 29, 2004 08:32 PM (kmiNS)

7 But where in the template does one put said code? I am happily going to install it, just no idea WHERE!

Posted by: Helen at September 29, 2004 08:45 PM (2mqzj)

8 Helen;

You can't 'install' it. It's not a piece of 'code' for an individual blog. This is an instruction that gets sent via the command line, to the SQL database on the server that contains all the posts & comments for all of MuNu. We as users don't have access to that database, since the slightest error would screw up every blog on MuNu. Only Pixie has that kind of access.

Given that such a change would effect every blog here, I think it's time that a serious discussion was held about what to do about comment spam on MuNu. it's been bandied about, but no plan of action ever really established. It needs to be addressed, but in a way that takes into account the varying needs of the users, in as elegant (ie non ham-handed, as this particular method would be) manner as possible.

I have some suggestions/ideas, as I'm sure others do, and will start a post about specifically that.

I've also been working on a set of basic information about Blacklist, as I don't think it's ever been explained here, and I don't think everybody knows how to use it, or what the dangers are in it. Unfortunately the whole thing isn't ready, but I guess it's time to at least start getting the info out here.

I have a shoot to do, but when I get back in a couple of hours, I'll get the process started.

Posted by: Light & Dark at September 29, 2004 10:10 PM (eT6wp)

9 Helen - a followup on your PC question;

I'm not sure I understand what's happening. When is your computer shutting down? Do you mean that after being on for a period of time, it randomly shuts off without warning? Or do you get a 'the computer is shutting down' warning of some sort? Are you doing anything in particular when the shutdown happens?

What version of Windows are you running?
How old is your PC (approx)? Is it a laptop or desktop? Any additional details about what kind of computer would also help. And why was the fan replaced to start with?

Lots of questions, I know, but hopfully with some more info, we can get you fixed up right quick!

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark at September 29, 2004 10:21 PM (eT6wp)

10 There are some MT addin thingys that can be set to run as a cron job that will close comments on all posts... the only problem will be that it will be a system wide procedure and everyone will have to "buy in" to the number of days we want to keep our comments active... I would think anything over a couple of weeks could be safely shut down, as mosr blogs display only the previous 7 days worth of posts... have Pixy let me know and I'll track it down again.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at September 30, 2004 02:35 AM (Ql9J6)

11 On the PC - if the fan isn't working well you could be overheating and getting a shutdown from that event. Check fan function and air flow.

Posted by: Jim at October 01, 2004 06:01 PM (GCA5m)

12

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I dunno, but I thought tonight's Navel Gazin' Report™ was one of the best pieces of humor I have composed of late. What do ya'll think?

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And we still seem to be on the 800GB plan. :)

I'm still looking for a bigger, faster, shinier server, but for now at least I don't have to rush into it.

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1 Yay! Amazon.mu.nu anyone?

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 29, 2004 01:27 AM (f2TFE)

2 I dunno, seems I got a hefty DayPop spike today for a couple of hours.

Posted by: Tiger at September 29, 2004 05:52 AM (G5PGV)

3 Hey Pixy,
What is the name of the webhost outfit you use anyway? A blog friend of mine recently got shut down for excessive bandwidth and is shopping for a new host.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at September 29, 2004 10:42 PM (JQjhA)

4 When the time comes, the offer help cover any associates costs still stands.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 29, 2004 11:05 PM (U3CvV)

5 Rusty, we're hosted at Liquidweb.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 29, 2004 11:41 PM (+S1Ft)

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For some reason, lately, I haven’t been getting email notification of comments.

Anyone know what’s up with that?

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Liquidweb came back and said they couldn't do anything for us. And it took them forever to actually say that.

So I'm currently looking at a server with another company, and we may end up moving house next weekend.

I'll keep you posted.

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Is anyone else having a problem with people reporting comments not posting due to 'questionabl content', when the comment contains no such thing?

I've had a few lately, whereas I seem to be able to post comments with any old swear words I want in my own blog. And I've also been able to post other people's comments for them even though they keep getting the error!

Any ideas? Much appreciated :).

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1 Yes... if the questionable content is marked as h--p. That's what I'm getting.

Just delete the "h--p://" (imagine the real text) from the URL personal info field and it'll go through fine.
And, yep, the link to yer blog will automagically still include the h--p:// tag.

Don't know why this is happening all of a sudden, but there it is. Ah well. :/

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 26, 2004 01:43 AM (3bmI8)

2 Spork, you're a legend! thanks for that, I wouldn't have thought of it .

Posted by: goldie at September 26, 2004 01:56 AM (stGoY)

3 Should be fixed now. "http" had been put on the Blacklist. I've removed it.

Posted by: Jim at September 26, 2004 03:52 AM (GCA5m)

4 Who is doing this stupid shit?
I just had to remove "yahoo.com" fer Christsakes....

Posted by: Stevie at September 26, 2004 04:54 AM (JtuoY)

5 Be careful out there, folks! :p

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 26, 2004 10:56 AM (+S1Ft)

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Hey, fellow Munuvians. I just thought I'd let you all know that today is my 1 year blogiversary. I'd like to thank Pixy Misa for rescuing me from BlogSpot and making it possible to keep posting for this long. Also, thanks to everyone who has come to my site, even if you were just browsing the MuNu blogroll.

That's about it.

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(Click on the image for a full-size version.)

We've gone from less than 10GB per day to around 40GB. Which is rather more than I'd bargained for. Hope Liquidweb gets back to me soon, or I'm toast.

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1 Yikes!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 24, 2004 04:40 PM (e+WQX)

2 Well, I'll do my part and ensure I write nothing witty or clever.

Posted by: BravoRomeoDelta at September 24, 2004 08:23 PM (9X/fX)

3 Are we talking golden-brown-done-to-a-turn toast or blackened-and-charred-roofing-shingle toast?

Posted by: Ted at September 24, 2004 09:20 PM (ZjSa7)

4 How's about a new rule: If ya hit the big time yer out of the house.

We can't have Pixy Misa raising a hundred growed-up blogs now can we?

Then again, this may pass when the whole Ra^thergate frenzy finally fades. Let's hang in there for a bit more.

And, Pixy, swallow yer pride and put up a damm tip jar, will ya?!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 25, 2004 02:13 AM (MG1SI)

5 Over the side with overly popular blogs? I certainly don't have worry about that.

Posted by: frinklin at September 25, 2004 05:22 AM (4k5pf)

6 I'd love to host a hundred blogs each having thousands of visitors a day - as long as I can plan for it in advance. It's just when it's a surprise that it's a problem.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 25, 2004 05:25 AM (+S1Ft)

7 Guess I shouldn't have posted that pic of me in my nightie....sorry about that!

Posted by: Susie at September 25, 2004 02:54 PM (aGSjc)

8 Pixy,

I posted PDFs of John Kerry's book The New Soldier and a number of other sites linked directly to them. Can you tell if that is the source of the trouble. If it is, they're gone, or at least renamed to break the outside links.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 26, 2004 04:10 AM (U3CvV)

9 The files are small less than 300k but if the links spread enough, and I have do way of knowing, it could ad up. I still get a dozen or do hits a day from some of the sites that linked to me.

I have renamed the files to break the outside links. Whatever it was contributing to the problem I hope it helps. And Sorry.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 26, 2004 04:30 AM (U3CvV)

10 One other thing. I posted the files on August 19th. Given a few days for the links to spread that seems to coincide well to your chart.

Again, if these files are the source of the problem or a major contributor, I apologize.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 26, 2004 04:38 AM (U3CvV)

11 Continuing my mea culpa I checked my bandwidth usage on CpanelX. For June I had about .3gb for July .4gb for August 9.8gb.

I should have shut down those links sooner it seems.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 26, 2004 02:43 PM (U3CvV)

12 Stephen, 10GB is not a problem.

Now, 137GB, that's a problem.

The new server I'm considering is only a little more expensive than the old one. It's not "managed", but then again, I don't really want a managed server. And it gives us a lot more bandwidth and processing power.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 26, 2004 03:10 PM (+S1Ft)

13 I'd-a thunk we would've had this problem back when we were all getting a thousand hits a day just for mentioning Nick Berg. Can this really be caused just 'cause Ace and Pet Jawa are getting more traffic lately? Hmmm.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 26, 2004 06:34 PM (TNFuZ)

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I want to change my archive template to look just like my main page template. I've tried several of my own homegrown tweaks and I'm doing something wrong. I just can't seem to turn it from a single column to a dual column. I figure that if I put all my links up in a sidebar in all of my archives, I might get some people to click around my blogroll, including my munuvian blogroll--more traffic all around!! more...

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1 First, change your archives where it says 'div id ="container" ' to 'div id="content" '... that will change the main column to your index page specs... then, copy paste your sidebar code into your archive templates... [SAVE] & [REBUILD]...

Don't forget to save a copy of your files before you start messing around with them... or you'll be sorry!!!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at September 24, 2004 01:46 AM (Ql9J6)

2 I've never been Instalanched, either. The closest I got was several mentions at the Emperor Misha's (I broke the 30-comment mark with my tribute to Rachel Lucas!).

Rachel and Andrew Sullivan have quoted me, but didn't link me in the process. Ah well.

I think that the best way to get an Instalanche is to send Glenn yer post. But (and this is important) DON'T SEND HIM JUST ANY OL' POST. Wait until you really think you'vce hit it.

When you know -- beyond any doubt -- that you've written something that others will be glad they read, then send Glenn a message. Don't bug him with ordinary crapola... all he'll do then is jus' learn to ignore your emails in a New York minute.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 24, 2004 03:31 AM (APIH8)

3 Madfish, I understand most of yer instruction, but this:

"then, copy paste your sidebar code into your archive templates"

has me baffled. I'm interested in doing the same thing Rusty want to do, but what the fark is my "sidebar code"? Where will I find it...? How will I identify it?

Your help is gold, man. Talk to me like I'm a gifted six-year-old who doesn't know crap about computers!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 24, 2004 03:37 AM (APIH8)

4 Your code for your sidebar is mostly likely between <div id="links"> tags... you paste it into the archive templates after the </MTEntries> and 2 </div> tags... just like it is in your main index template... next stick yer finger into to wall socket and tst for current... you'll know it hot when you smell haor burning!

Is that about as clear as muddy water?????

[HaroldMan and YellowDog are both helping me right now... I hope they got everything right... for a change!]

Posted by: Madfish Willie at September 24, 2004 04:29 AM (Ql9J6)

5 Evil Glenn must DIE DIE DIE!!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at September 24, 2004 04:30 AM (Ql9J6)

6 It was an email, my girlish figure was just icing.

It only took me a year of trying I gave him a gmail account have tipped him on a number of occasions he even linked to a post I submitted on Dean's World one time. I've debased myself plenty for this.

Still, Lileks links give more traffic at least on the first day of the -lanche.

Posted by: spacemonkey at September 24, 2004 03:11 PM (DN55C)

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Okay, so my blog does this very strange thing (sometimes) when viewed in Firefox (and, I'm told, Safari and probably some other non-IE browsers).

Sometimes on the main page (and on the other pages) the first post present doesn't "word wrap" properly (or at all). All the other posts do, though. Then, if a link within the body of the post is visible you can just drag your mouse over it and the post pops into place with proper word wrapping and display and everything. It's fine after that.

I have to believe (both out of vanity and out of how it works) that this is not a problem in my CSS coding but is instead something going on with the browsers (because it displays well after the link is rolled over).

The other weird thing is that the page I stole the basic layout from doesn't have this problem at all. Is there something I can do, or should I just live with it?

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Pfui!

pixymisa.com, which I've had hosted elsewhere for years, has expired. I've poked the folks responsible with a stick, but in the meantime you can always reach me at andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net.

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Victor, without asking me, mind you, has declared it Joe Don Baker Haiku Day at annika's journal.

i turned it into a contest. There is a prize, if anyone's interested.

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I contacted our hosting provider to ask about moving from our 500GB plan to an 800GB plan, and they're getting me pricing on that.

Except that it seems that they had already mistakenly put me on the 800GB plan without charging me for it.

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1 PAYPAL BUTTON

PAYPAL BUTTON

PAYPAL BUTTON

PAYPAL BUTTON

Posted by: Linda at September 22, 2004 07:02 PM (9Pzdi)

2 So, is this good news?

Posted by: Tiger at September 23, 2004 03:12 AM (G5PGV)

3 Well, it's nice that we're on the 800GB plan, except that now that they know, they might take us off the 800GB plan.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 23, 2004 03:39 AM (kOqZ6)

4 What Linda said. You must put up a Paypal button.

Posted by: Simon at September 23, 2004 11:34 AM (GWTmv)

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Guess who has these Sitemeter stats:

VISITS

Total 137,903
Average Per Day 3,655
Average Visit Length 1:14
Last Hour 2,331
Today 34,117
This Week 25,588

Oh, yeah:

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But I need help on my homework... or more importantly the Research Paper that lets me graduate!

Heh. So anyway, I have to write a research paper, and I need 7 sources. Only 1 can be a website.

My topic is:

Does a* government have the right to limit what people say on their blogs?

*as in any government, including and not excluding the U.S. but I think the US is pretty clear on it.. ya know, the whole first admendment thing

So... Please?

UPDATE: I changed my topic to

Blogs are destroying corporate media's hold on the public

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1
Feel free to interview me. I was an American Studies major, and am sort of a political and history junkie.

tbux-at-psualum-dot-com

Posted by: Tom at September 21, 2004 11:56 PM (kmiNS)

2 Well I'm happy to help. I worked in main stream (BBC) media for 6 years and am now an IT professional ... plus I'm an opinionated SOB and am happy to set up an IM chat provided we can work round the whole time zone difference - virtual jet lag gives me a real headache.

I'd also give Simon (simonworld.mu.nu) a shout as he is very involved in the current asian (chinese) blog furore!!!

Posted by: Rob at September 22, 2004 01:20 AM (WJnNT)

3 Since I sort of teach government at a University I might be qualified to help, but it would have to be anonymous.

Posted by: RS at September 22, 2004 04:16 AM (JQjhA)

4 If ya wanna go back to the basics, there's a link in the sidebar at Consent of the Govcerned that's searchable.

Obviously the word "blogosphere" wont givce you any hints. But searching general themes of speech and the government's limits might help you out a little.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 24, 2004 04:16 AM (APIH8)

5 Oops! Neglected to mention that the searchable link is to the brilliant Federalist Papers.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 24, 2004 04:18 AM (APIH8)

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