Pain in the English

Forum for the gray areas of the English language

Announcement

June 24th, 2008 by dyske

One of our regular contributors, porsche, informed me that submitting a comment redirects you to Microsoft's website. Sorry about that. I keep track of the IP addresses of Spammers, and I send all the spammers to Microsoft's website. I recently moved the site to a different server, and the new server was returning the same IP address for everyone, and I ended up listing that IP address as a Spammer's. And, so the site considered everyone who commented as a Spammer. That's what happened.

But that's a long, boring, technical story, and what matters is that it's working fine now.

Thank you, porsche, for informing me of this problem. If anyone ever experience any problems like this on this site, please let me know.

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5 Responses to “Announcement”

  1. Sushant says:

    I think you meant : 'If anyone ever experiences* any problems like this on this site, please let me know.'

    Thank you for setting it right though.

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  2. dyske says:

    Oh, right.

    It's not easy to write anything for this site; you know it will be scrutinized!

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  3. porsche says:

    I'm glad I could help. Thanks for the mention. And thanks for creating a great site!

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  4. oz says:

    I also think you meant "And so, the site considered everyone who commented as a Spammer," and not "And, so the site considered everyone who commented as a Spammer."

    I love this site BTW! :)

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  5. UIP says:

    No, it should be "And, so, the site considered everyone who commented to be a spammer".

    Current score: 0

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