April 06, 2004
From the desk of Jane Galt:Welcome to Asymmetrical Information's new home
Sometime during the night, we hope that the DNS will go through, and you'll be redirected here, to our new home.
It should be faster than the old home, not just because we've got more server capacity, but also because it turns out that some nasty old comment spams were hog-tying the database, which may have been responsible for the ridiculous length of comment times. (Our posting response wasn't so hot either, if it makes you feel any better.) Over 2,000 comment spams, about 10% of the total number of comments, were deleted during the changeover. I can't tell you what inchoate rage fills my breast as I quote you this statistic.
Anyway, welcome to our new home, and thanks to the brilliant technological whiz who made it all possible . . .
Posted by Jane Galt at April 6, 2004 06:32 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksMy goodness, this IS fast. All hail the bandwidth! :)
Posted by: anony-mouse on April 6, 2004 08:29 PMI measure it by whether or not I can cook dinner while waiting for the comment to post. ;)
Posted by: Kathy K on April 7, 2004 07:30 AMWill you be serving up new recipes for the virtual housewarming? :)
Posted by: Katherine on April 7, 2004 10:52 AMJust testing. BTW, the new comments don't remember my info, but that's a tiny price to pay for speed.
Posted by: PJ/Maryland on April 7, 2004 11:16 AMSorry about the 'no remember'. That will get fixed once everyone gets this site at www.janegalt.net rather than the IP address and we change the paths to the DNS. It's like moving house... you trip over unpacked boxes for a while!
Posted by: Moving company on April 7, 2004 11:48 AMDear Megan,
Congratulations, the new site makes a big diference.
I took advantage of your upgrade to post a new comment (comment #100) on your April 1st post about choosing between Bush and Kerry.
Happy blogging to you and Mindless!
"I can't tell you what inchoate rage fills my breast as I quote you this statistic."
Which one, right or left? I seem to recall that one can now purchase undergarments to address that particular condition.
(This nonsequitur is brought to you by the letters B and C, and by the number 34.)
Posted by: David Thompson on April 8, 2004 10:45 PMComment spam is terrible. I was gone for a week and had to clean about twenty off when I got back. Could you post a list of tne IP's you banned? That would be helpful to the rest of us.
Posted by: John Dunshee on April 13, 2004 12:13 AMIn addition to using MT-Blacklist and banning IPs as you see them, I also recommend renaming your comment script to something other than "comment.cgi" and closing comments after a certain number of days (if you have mysql installed, use a cron job to update the allow_comments field after X days).
If you don't know how to do these things and don't want to learn it yourself, I recommend you speak with Kathy Kinsley.
Posted by: "Mindles H. Dreck" on April 13, 2004 05:59 AMComments are Closed.