Not that we get attacked by comment spam here, but I've implemented the rel=noFollow idea from Google on comments, trackbacks and referers. (However, I've not added the rel=noFollow to the actual links to [comments 0] and [trackbacks 0], this is to allow the indexing of comments, but no Google Juice from any links inside comments and trackbacks.) Knowing spammers as I do, I think this will be part one of the war of attrition. Chuq Von Rospach thinks that the comment spammers will still spam even if there is less return, so long as there are some vulnerable weblogs.

"If a British person says 'very interesting', they mean in fact the opposite. For a Dutch person this is very confusing as we are not used to playing with language in such a manner."

"This is a script, written in UserTalk (the language of Userland Frontier), which will export a Manila (or Weblogs.com, or Buzzword.com, or Weblogger, etc.) weblog to a file suitable for importing into Movable Type or TypePad. It will also write all of the images contained within the Manila site out to files, convert Manila discussion group threads into MT/TypePad comment threads, and convert any Manila News Item departments into post categories."

Most excellent! I hate lock-in. This just goes to prove that if you have a Manila blog, you needn't fear that you're stuck. I'd like to include this script as a page within all myManila blogs. Thus, not only is there an existing download your site page (/downloadMySite/MySite.root), but there will be an export your site to these formats page.

"This was a Word macro I wrote that uses PocketSOAP to create a new story in Manila"

Amazing the stuff I miss. This is from 3 years ago. I found it via Steve Kirks who found something similar for Radio. When I have a bit of time I'll play with this a little, I can see a few of my customers using it, perhaps.

"Smal text at the bottom of the design is: "She wanted to stop reading it- but she had nothing better to do! Produced by average people who seem to think their lives are interesting. Filmed in thrilling HTML-O-Scope with exciting new fonts!""