The admins mailbox just received a piece of spam. I noticed that the E-mail Admins page includes the admins@buff... address at the bottom of the page, and you don't need to be logged in to access the page. I wonder if that's how it was harvested?
ita - I can add in a small bit of javascript that will prevent further harvesting of that address. The change will be invisible to users. My radio station's web site has used it to good effect. The only downside is that it's javascript, but it works for all browsers. You want I should fix up that page?
Do we prevent deep linking to our site? It seems to me there was some discussion back when we got a spike in hits because of a joss posting because other websites were deep linking.
There was also some discussion about creating a static page for specific notables (Joss, Tim, et al) that could be indexed by outside forces and not disrupt the server in the way a deep link did.
I believe we reached the conclusion that preventing deep-linking would cause more of a server strain, not less, since users would be having to click through multiple pages to find the one they want, rather than getting there on the first click.
I keep getting confused by all this talk of "going back to Message Center", until I remember that I was saved by tabbed browsing about six months ago.
For me, read new taking me to the message centre keeps me in the subscription metaphor. If I don't want to know how many posts are rapidly increasing in the Firefly Spoiler thread (which I really don't), as a subscription person, I never have to. The main page doesn't exist unless I go there on purpose.
I guess I just wanted it, because I pared my subscriptions way down. There are a lot of threads I'm still subscribed to in my heart, if not in my profile.
t /goober
It was the thought behind the design, anyway, that subscriptions would be a world in itself (easily exitable, but still).
I guess that makes more sense. And really, I'm only adding one click to a new (for me) procedure that's eliminated a bunch of clicks, so there's still a net decrease. Read New is just a whole new world to me. I prefer message center living, but can't get the hang of Read New unless I only have a handful of subscriptions.
The admins mailbox just received a piece of spam. I noticed that the E-mail Admins page includes the admins@buff... address at the bottom of the page, and you don't need to be logged in to access the page. I wonder if that's how it was harvested?
I've gotten a couple of spam messages to donations@, as well. FYI.
How do you block harvesting but still make it accessible to people that browse without Javascript, Jon?
That was the "downside." One solution: if they can't use the form, and they don't have javascript, we can have a gif with the email address in it. They would have to type out the email address by reading the gif. Yes, I realize this isn't particularly user-friendly.
So here's our update, people. They have been monitoring the server and the number of concurrent connections is WAY down. Seriously down. Want to know how down?
30.
Yes, that's right. For the past few days, we've been using around 30 connections. Sometimes even lower. A few minutes ago, we were at 5.
So I don't think we have to do anything drastic now. We can breathe easy for a while and see what happens in October. Now that doesn't mean let's add 20 new threads. But we are out of the danger zone.
I'm a happy girl.
