Apologies For The Blog Spamming Readers

Everton | Sep 06, 2007 | View Comments


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


Read Related Posts

  1. Site Problems Update: Culprit Was Readers Post Plugin Site Problems Update: Culprit Was Readers Post Plugin
  2. Sending Bad Messages Via SMS - Would You Do It? Sending Bad Messages Via SMS – Would You Do It?
  3. Apologies To Those Who Saw The Rude Picture Apologies To Those Who Saw The Rude Picture
  4. Exclusive To Connected Internet Readers - Win $100 Exclusive To Connected Internet Readers – Win $100
  5. Increase Blog Comments And Traffic With Disqus Comments Plugin Increase Blog Comments And Traffic With Disqus Comments Plugin



««
»»

Latest Posts

Filed Under: Blogging

Tags: • • • •

About the Author: 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.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • sorry to here that.
    and best wish to your sites.
  • Lol I wondered what all those were about. I think I got about 10
  • @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
  • Forum looks like it's CSS isn't loading, best to look into that.
  • 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.
  • Shashank
    i got 8 emails only ...but why did the server died ..didn't they gave any reason for the server failure
  • Update: all over now. PowerVPS deleted the final 3,500 emails in the queue.....
  • Sorry everyone. I've asked my host to see if they can delete any emails that are still in the mail queue
  • And here I thought it was just because you were trying to get our attention :)

    No worries. My delete button works quite nicely. :)
  • Tyler Menezes
    Ha! I beat 19 by far. I got one every three or four minutes from about 10pm to about 1am! I don't even remember posting a comment here ever. Yet I have 67 emails in my Inbox. I was seriously coming to this site to threaten you for spamming me. :P
blog comments powered by Disqus