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Message # 41152.6

Subject: Re:Before everyone asks...

Date: Mon 07/09/09 10:01:07 GMT

Name: Jay

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By Nigel - nigel@wetlook.com Mon 07/09/09 05:13:25 GMT

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The previous stability problems were down to the Sun ASP (Active Server Pages) becoming unstable.

The Add New Message page was still coded using this. Other pages have previously been re-written in C, but addnew.asp has been causing problems for a while, due to the number of spam attacks on it. There is some very good and tricky filtering in there, which spots spam very well, and rejects it in various ways. The trouble is that it was becoming more and more cumbersome and overloaded.

You may remember previous times the forum has been slow or unusable, these have all been similar problems. Before, simply renaming the file, and redirecting has been enough to stop the spam loading for a while.

Unfortunately, this time it happened just before going on holiday for 2 weeks ! On my return I decided to bite the bullet, I have spent the last 8 days working on recoding and testing - this is why I had not done this before - I've had to suspend all my other paid work to get this done !

Anyhow, the new implementation is much faster, more reliable, and with extra security traps.

Obviously, there may be some initial bugs that I've not yet found, as there are a lot of things handled in the code.

Thank you for your patience, and please let me know of any problems you come across.

Nigel (nigel@wetlook.com)

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