Update: My mistake. Michael Hampton is still supporting Bad Behavior. Maybe I’ll figure out what’s wrong after all.
I’ve disabled the Bad Behavior plugin because it was sporadically blocking me from my own site. Bad Behavior in theory blocks spambots and other desirables from viewing your website altogether, saving your bandwidth and resources and acting as a first-line defense, complementing anti-spam solutions like Akismet and the new Defensio.
I really love the concept, but since Bad Behavior blocks access entirely, false positives are very costly. Unwittingly blocking genuine visitors to my site would be very very bad. I’ve tried to find the problem following instructions from the FAQ and this blog post on false positives, to no avail.
Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t seem to be in active development, and the email for reporting false positives appears to be dead. Oh well, I guess Akismet alone will have to do.
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Publishing this post only 20 minutes after sending me email doesn’t give me much time to respond.
If you’ve disabled the plugin then I might not be able to help you any further, since the trouble appears to be with your proxy server.
I’ve sent you further details by email.
My apologies. I really wasn’t expecting to hear from you at the second email address I tried. Your published email is no longer active, and I dug around and tried your Paypal email at a whim.
Thanks a lot for getting back to me! I’d love nothing more than to figure out what the problem is an re-activate the plugin.