Natural History Wanderings

I have recently been unable to get on the Nature Blog Network. I did some research and found out that the site is permanently down. It was killed by Spam registrations. The 10,000 Birds blog reported

The bad guys have won. Our decrepit toplist software, which just didn’t keep up with the times, couldn’t hold up under the assault of literally thousands of spam registrations. At first we couldn’t approve new members. Now we can’t even log in. Worst of all, the toplist isn’t showing up. The damage is, as far as I can tell, irreparable.

As a result, I’ll be pulling the plug on the Nature Blog Network and taking the whole thing down.

Read full story at: 10,000 Birds | Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy.