TMJAA2 : TeachMeJoomla auto archive version 2 is released.

New features: TMJAA2 can automatically move expired or old articles to auto created sections and categories. It can also move them to a designated category, or it can replicate the category structure in another section. This way you can separate old articles without relying on Joomla archive menu items. Once the articles are automatically moved, you can create menu items to display them.

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Finding a Joomla! email extension to fit your purpose is not as easy as you may think. I've debugged YANC last year and I still remeber the feeling. Fortunately, I've come across a reliable, profesionally written and supported newsletter extension(component). It's called SM2 Email Marketing, and it also works with J! 1.5 since early april 2008.

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TeachMeJoomla has ported Michael Hampton's BadBehavior to a Joomla system mambot.

The BadBehavior scripts monitors the way your site is accessed, blocking spam bots, harvesting bots, and any user agent (browser) that doesn't obey robots.txt standard. The script has more blocking rules for known spammer IP addresses and typical spammer access patterns.

Read more about BB at its home page 

... and further read this document for instructions and download 

To update your Joomla! sites, please remove the old bot, then download and install the latest version. After this step is completed access and reload your frontpage to make the "first run" message go away.

Update[Sep 9 2008]: the latest bot uses BB 2.0.23 code.

We implemented the following BadBehavior options in this version :

• HTTPBL(Project HoneyPot ) key
• HTTPBL maxage and threat level
• BadBehavior strict mode, verbose mode, and logging.

Update[Apr 23 2008]: the latest bot uses BB 2.0.15 code.

Update[Jan 22 2008]: the latest bot uses BB 2.0.12 code.

New in this release (since 2.0.11):

• IP addresses for the digg.com service have been added to Bad Behavior’s internal whitelist. Upon submitting a story to digg.com, it attempts to load the submitted URL using the PEAR HTTP_Request class, but with a fake HTTP user agent, causing Bad Behavior to block the requests. This problem was reported to digg and the company has failed to respond or to resolve the problem. The IP addresses have been whitelisted due to user demand. If you use digg, please let them know that this is not acceptable to you.
• Users deploying Bad Behavior with Akamai Dynamic Site Accelerator, Dynamic Site Accelerator Enterprise, or Web Application Accelerator found that Internet Explorer users were being blocked by Bad Behavior. This issue was traced to Akamai’s use of the HTTP/1.1 transfer coding feature in its proxy servers. This issue has been fixed.

Update: the latest bot uses BB 2.0.11 code.

New in 2.0.11: 

The updated bot fixes some critical errors, including the bug that breaks POST forms submission.

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