12 January 06 - 14:19Anti-Bot code now working, and restyling
I am happy to say that the anti-bot code is now in operation (and if
you know somebody with this same problem I had feel free to point them
in my direction if they need a hand). If you find it has been
triggered when you are just browsing the site
please let me know.
You may also notice some restyling of the forum/archive. I have
cleaned up the default header (always took up too much space in my
opinion) and added what I hope are unobtrusive Adsense adds in a few
blank spaces.
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07 January 06 - 13:35Post Indexing, bots and a call for contributions
For those of you wondering what is happenning with this site, I hope you will find the following illuminating:
I had planned by now to have a number of other email lists being
archived here by now (as this sites potential is only realised when
there are more on-board) however I have been trying to work out a
problem with the emails received from Yahoo! Those of you
subscribing to emails directly from Yahoo! (not using Yahoo!s web
reader) and using a threaded display would have noticed this
problem. The problem is that Yahoo does not provide the
"reply-to" email reference when a reply is posted via their web
interface. This means that threads are often broken into pieces
if viewing with an email client - or anything else that subsribes to
the email system - like this website.
It is very annoying that Yahoo! is refusing to honor one of the
oldest standards online - the email RFC. I need to get this fixed
before I extend the archive to cover other Locost references. The
good news is that I have worked out how to do this (it helps that I
write code for a living). The bad news is I may have to reload
the entire archive once I put my "fix" in.
From checking my logs today for January I noticed two things:
- It is gratifying that it seems people are using the article
archive both to keep up to date, and to look things up using the search
engine (especially since the latter is a large part of why this site
was started)
- I notice with dissappointment that 75% of article lookups are
"bots" sucking up information. (the expensive kind that grab a
post a second and attempt to kill your webserver as a result).
I'll update the forum software to block this action in the future.
A call for contributions
One thing that I would like this site to become, is a source of
information on "how I did x". Now obviously the forum archive
does achieve that, however if you do have something to say on Clubbie
technical topics, I would love to hear from you.
Cheers
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