[wp-forums] To unspam or not to delete - that is the question...

[Chris Kasten]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Mr mist <listswpforum at mist.org.uk> wrote:

> In message <4C8E8DD9.3060907 at ronandandrea.com>, andrea_r <
> andrea at ronandandrea.com> writes
>
>
>> Even allowing it with that bit edited out, it encourages him.
>>
>>
> Yeah.
>
> His attitude sucks.  It doesn't do him any favours.
>
> The thread was open by the time I got to it, so I checked with Nacin who
> confirmed that his tickets are not being deleted.
>
>

Ya know... I had to reread gazouteast's issue a few times to get to the core
of it and it finally hit me: this has been seen before.

A simpler example: You have a blog at domain.com/blog and another app at
domain.com/otherapp. You decide to install WP in the root as well at
domain.com.

Now, whenever you try to access /otherapp or /blog you get a 404 from
domain.com's install of WP.

What I don't have is the time to search the forums to find past experiences
-- or the time/inclination to search gazouteast's previous threads to see if
I'm just rehashing what someone else has already said.

I think at one point it was described as "greedy subdirectories" or some
such if that raises any lightbulbs.