Apologies For The Blog Spamming Readers

September 6th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Blogging

Tags: Comment Relish, Forum, plugin, server, Wordpress

My server died this evening for a few hours, and when it eventually got going again the Comment Relish plugin decided to send emails to I think everyone who has ever left a comment on Connected Internet. Unfortunately, it seems it decided to send a fair few to each person.

I just want to apologise to everyone who received the emails. Judging by how many complaints I got it was a lot of people. Hopefully everything is ok now, although the forum still looks a bit wonky.

Update: PowerVPS have deleted all the emails in the queue and the emails will stop now. just in time as another 3,500 were queued up ready to go. Apologies again to everyone.

Hi Everton,

I’ve deleted all mails in the queue coming from nobody@connectedinternet.co.uk

As that’s the sender sending out the ‘thanks for your first comment’ etc etc.

The mail queue is just about email, I deleted about 3,500 mails
Best Regards,
Phil
Support Technician III
Defender Technologies Group, LLC./PowerVPS Support

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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1. #15
   

   Comment by horisly on 7 September 2007:

   sorry to here that.
   and best wish to your sites.
2. #14
   

   Comment by Luke on 7 September 2007:

   Lol I wondered what all those were about. I think I got about 10
3. #13
   

   Comment by Everton on 7 September 2007:

   @phil

   yep

   To be honest, it needs a new theme so that’s my weekend project to do some work on the forum as it’s been neglected for months
4. #12
   

   Comment by Phil Dufault on 7 September 2007:

   Forum looks like it’s CSS isn’t loading, best to look into that.
5. #11
   

   Comment by Everton on 7 September 2007:

   the comms from the guys helping me wasn’t up to PowerVPS’s usual standards, and I wasn’t very happy. e.g I had to argue with one guy for about 2 hours that there was a server problem as he was saying it was something I’d done, even though I’d got alerts saying the server had totally gone down!!

   Luckily anonther rep was acting on that ticket, otherwise nothing would have been done.

   My forum is still messed up. It was working fine so I went to sleep, but they must have done something else as it’s gone wonky again.

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