Spam

[Kilkenne]

 You see? The last two posts could be considered SPAM. It's like post-warring, only with low post counts!

[vertigosity]

 Mmmmh.... speaking of spam, boze :: I figured out why the iBoze inbox file keeps filling up and overquota-ing the server... it's got something to do with RWL's "turn.php" file.

The file contains several million messages, and they all read as such:

From boze@berlin.infodomadns.com Tue Mar 04 20:13:04 2003
Return-path:
Envelope-to: boze@berlin.infodomadns.com
Delivery-date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:13:04 -0500
Received: from boze by berlin.infodomadns.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1)
   id 18qNSv-0001Oi-00
   for boze@berlin.infodomadns.com; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:13:01 -0500
From: root@berlin.infodomadns.com (Cron Daemon)
To: boze@berlin.infodomadns.com
Subject: Cron /boze/public_html/warlords/turns.php
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
Message-Id:
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:13:01 -0500

/bin/sh: /boze/public_html/warlords/turns.php: No such file or directory

unfortunatly, I don't know how this would be fixed, as I checked, and there most certainly is a turns.php file in that directory. since I haven't/don't actually play Warlords (yet), I don't know if this error is causing any problems with the game. I'm assuming that it sends one of these messages every time someone takes a turn, but like I said, as a nonparticipant I can't really say what it does.

however, it should be fairly safe for you to re-make that crontab job you were talking about to auto-del it, as it doesn't contain a single piece of the mail heading to your email or my email. that way, we won't have to go in and delete it every week.

[Deathclaw]

 If they need computer help then me or my friend, who is also skilled with computers, could possibly help.

[vertigosity]

 heh. we fixed it. er, boze did actually. i think he owns me.
now I no longer have a legitimate use for having root FTP access in iBoze anymore. bah.

[PlayStephen]

 I think it's a good idea to stop the spam! It serves no purpose except to spam up this message board! [I hope that this post is not considered as such! :blink:  

[Menatus]

 It might be. Heh heh...things that have extremely bad punctuation/capitalization, are unrelated to the topic, or that are one word long, etc. are considered spam.

[Abby The Rat]

 I'm still trying to work out, how the hell did you get a big total count without doing so many spamming.

~Goes into a deep think~

[Menatus]

 Profanity, Ad. Heh, I don't know. I'm just good like that.

*Spam*

[Dead Eye]

 yo menatus don't you only have two more posts to go before the big 1k?

[Menatus]

 Not anymore! Mwahaha. Of course, I had to reach 1,000 late at night (not really, it's only 10:00...) when no one's on.

[calria]

 I'm on! *twirls* rofl I love your new designation! Menatus the crazy... you should ad it to you sig.

Ad, I'm suprised at your language! ;)

[Abby The Rat]

 Hmmm, oh H***, oops. I just let it slip, I was sleeply at the time of writing that, is was at what... ~thinks~ 1:00 am yep, ~Nods~

[TSR]

 THe crontab is notifying you of the output of turns.php
To get rid of that, add this " 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null", exactly as it is, no space but the leading space, to the end of the working crontab. THis will stop notification.

[RazorClaw]

 Errrr.... considering the title, this conversation probably shouldn't ensue.

[calria]

 And yet, it does...

Does anyone else see the irony in admins in an anti-spam topic talking about something somewhat off topic about the server and whatnot? I find it highly ironic...