Friday, April 22, 2005

Webcomics links page for Wireball.com

Regarding Wireball's Daily Reading for Webcomics - originally I sorted the list according to my relative reading order with more favorites being at the top. But now that I'm adding to it, it would make it hard for people to find new additions if I did that, so for the time being I'm adding new additions at the top.

I don't have support for dynamic pages on my server, which makes it harder, but at some point in the future I would like to design two versions of the page - one sorted by date added, and the other sorted by (my) affinity for the webcomic (which may be influenced by a number of factors, including how well I think the listing fits at a certain point).

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

The joy of spam bouncing at the mailserver level

This post regards the spam-handling features built into my Webhost, Pair Networks.

I get a lot of spam addressed to senator12@terranrobotics.com, as the sole administrator of the domain, ever since someone stole the company credit card information from a verification server (not from us, interestingly enough) and for some reason used that e-mail address to sign up for pornographic sites. I'd just been filtering this at the client end (my end), but today I finally noticed that I can set up custom mail handling "recipes" right on the mail server, and one of the options is to bounce e-mail addressed to a particular address.

Since I never get any legitimate e-mail at this address, I set it to bounce, waited a few minutes, and then sent my spam-plagued e-mail address a test message. It came back undeliverable, just as I had hoped. Since this is at the server level, as I understand it, it avoids the problem of replying to forged "From:" addresses.

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Wireball.com new wider page design

I'm experimenting with a wider, more flexible page design on Wireball.com (80-90% of the browser width), which should require less scrolling. The effect should be most striking on www.Wireball.com/armada_1750_repair.htm. Comment here if the wider page design bothers you (and why, if so), or if you like it.

Anonymous comments welcomed. Off-topic posts will be deleted.