Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - December 2006
A hard man is good to beat
Galleries added this month.
Stories added this month.
Hamlet is proposing a Writers' Group. Here's what he says:
I am thinking of forming a group for writers and readers of the stories on the site. I realise that I must be the most prolific writer having written 503 in just over 4 years! This could be a discussion group with people giving their ideas about the stories and ideas for future episodes. I would very much welcome feedback especially about Norseland. We could even form a branch of the Norselandic Admiration Society (NAS)! This would help me to improve my writing skills too as I would like to be published one day. Look forward to hearing from you at Norseland@hotmail.com
Nothing new
Movies added this month.
I did the server-dance near the end of the month. I clear off the "current servers" and add to the "old servers". Not many people would notice this happening.
Nothing new.
A couple more servers developed dodgy hard drives. No big deal, I just strip out the faulty drive, put in a new one and reload the server from a backup.
The comments on the spams are mine, of course. These are actual spams sent to me, which just strike me as funny. I don't include their contact details - go find your own spammers!
By the way, if you're using StoneColdMail (which is free to web site members) then you won't see most of these spams, they'll be delivered into your "Spam" folder.
I now get about 2000 spams per day. My despammer works quite well, only a
couple of dozen get through, and it's very rare that a real email gets into
my spam folder. But I've divided the spam folder into two, one spammier than
the other. The spammier folder, is for spam that meets all the criteria for
spam, and also isn't addressed to me. That helps a lot, because I do look through both
spam folders, but I pay less attention to the spammier one.
Summer is almost here, be read
You live in Australia, right?
Personalize Santa Letter
You're spamming me, offering to help me to spam Santa Claus!
Most of the sponsorships now are by giving women server space and bandwidth, so they can operate their web sites without having to pay these fees. There's also photoshoots, which gets some revenue into their hands, as well as the traditional direct-funding sponsorship.
Here's the full list of DtV family web sites
Member | Posts |
| TomNine | 1143 |
| Jerroll | 968 |
| boomerflex | 891 |
| buffy18976 | 607 |
| madman3579 | 540 |
| bro007 | 525 |
| ginny2442 | 477 |
| gaily304 | 430 |
| steve5924 | 318 |
| mit19237 | 315 |
| shad349 | 298 |
| rainer0000 | 262 |
| heather.pedigo | 191 |
| micha74 | 188 |
| minion666 | 163 |
| tommy2164 | 136 |
| mac999 | 135 |
| beafan1 | 130 |
| jcc115 | 105 |
| donp.wpc | 92 |
Boomer is the man this month, Tom hard on his heels.
2337 posts this month.
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| Sports still very strong. | Zig, HomoAncient and Terry are the leaders; HA and Terry are going hammer and tongs on the religion board. |
Mavis is counting the number of times the message list is checked for each board. This gives a very different picture from the one above.
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| Scooby has edged out the sports board | Sports and scissors |
I checked the site statistics that Sandra counts up each night.
At the end of November 2006, there were about 928,000 pictures (74 gigabytes), 200 gigabytes of video, 10,600 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about 275 gigabytes. There's about 217 million pictures altogether in Newsthumbs, increasing at about 5 million per month.