October 21, 2004
COMMENTS
Comments still aren't working (or maybe Andrea has finally banned everybody. You people just had to keep annoying her, didn't you?).
Kind of boring, this comment-free format. Hopefully all will be repaired shortly. The problem was apparently a troll-driven mass spam assault, which threatened to overwhelm something called a "server". So, essentially, it was an attempted denial-of-service attack.
Posted by Tim Blair at October 21, 2004 12:40 AMI'm so glad the comments are back.
*grovels at the feet of Andrea, Queen Of All That Pixels (can "pixel" be a verb?) with abject promises to clean up the language and behave*
Posted by: Rebecca at October 21, 2004 at 03:15 AMAndrea, I've had to run websites m'self so I know what a pain in the a** it is to have this sorta problem added to your to-do list. Nicely done
Posted by: SouthernCross at October 21, 2004 at 03:52 AMMight have been a similar outfit that hit Ubersportingpundit domain last night. I've spent a lot of the day trying to fix it.
Posted by: Scott Wickstein at October 21, 2004 at 04:25 AMCHMOD your comment script to "000" for a while. The creeps will get bored and go elsewhere. Then you can turn comments back on.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at October 21, 2004 at 05:14 AMHere's what I got and what I sent in response when I tried to post earlier.
> Please contact the server administrator, webmaster{at}spleenville.com and
> inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have
> done that may have caused the error.
anything we might have
done that may have caused the error?
Blaming the victims, are you? Why does Andrea hate us?
C'mon Ms Harris! I'm "jonesin'" to leave a comment! Let us in!
JDB
Posted by: JDB at October 21, 2004 at 09:39 AMThe spam over-load couldn't have had anything to do with the emails sent to the Guardian,could it?A case of the Empire strikes back.
Posted by: gubbaboy at October 21, 2004 at 12:48 PM