Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - July 2007
A hard man is good to beat
It's certainly warm this year ... but also rainy.
Galleries added this month.
Stories added this month.
Movies added this month.
I had to replace the NNTP server that acts as the focus for the servers that do the newsthumbs. After a bit of faffing about, I got it working OK, and I don't think and stuff was lost, although a couple of days were huge because of the catch-up.
I don't expect to have to do this routinely; in this instance it was needed because of a failing hard drive.
Nothing new.
I made a visit to swap out a dozen failed servers, cumulated over the last several months. While I was there, I found a way to squeeze in an extra server into the cabinet.
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.
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here
are bad.
If you kill yourself, you can't eat your dog. You'll have to do it the other way round.
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 |
| boomerflex | 1196 |
| buffy18976 | 1094 |
| micha74 | 963 |
| gwest55150 | 825 |
| TomNine | 722 |
| rainer0000 | 717 |
| Jerroll | 539 |
| april069 | 531 |
| Shea | 453 |
| gaily304 | 337 |
| steve5924 | 319 |
| Lionheart | 302 |
| mit19237 | 195 |
| hiram2000 | 179 |
| ginny2442 | 135 |
| bro007 | 112 |
| gee1407 | 66 |
| shad349 | 52 |
| jacopicos | 46 |
| edoardo | 42 |
Andrulla came to the chatroom again.
1395 posts this month.
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| Politics is in strong flood, followed by sports. | Grapplejack, bighorn and Homoancient are discussing politics. |
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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| Politics takes the top of the table | Politics here too. |
A quarter of a billion pictures on Newsthumbs!
I checked the site statistics that Sandra counts up each night.
At the end of June 2007, there were about 970,000 pictures (85 gigabytes), 251 gigabytes of video, 11,300 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about 337 gigabytes. There's about 250 million pictures altogether in Newsthumbs, increasing at about 5 million per month.