November 2005

More on Spam

I have discovered some useful information regarding the recent spam attack, and have put in place some extra countermeasures that, at least for now, have enabled me to switch the Last 10 Updates and new users back on. If you discover further spam please let me know the username as soon as possible so that …

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Diary Spam

I have noticed a disturbing new phenomenon for DearDiary – diary spam. There have been a number of instances where diaries are created with entries that are selling something, often from China. This is quite a surprise because it is not all that easy for a new diarist to sign up automatically, and most spammers …

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Notifies Delayed

Many of you have already discovered, and e-mailed me to let me know, that there was a slight problem with the notifications leaving the server during last week. Unfortunately the nature of the problem was such that I couldn’t reply to individuals to let them know, because, well, mail to those individuals wasn’t leaving the …

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IP Address Change

Unfortunately an IP Address change was forced upon me by the hosting provider, which resulted in an outage for some while I figured out a way to get the server to respond to both IP addresses until the DNS updates. Most people probably haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about. Suffice to say if …

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