Random thoughts and observations
I received an email from my web host Site5 while I was at the cricket on Tuesday, saying this site had been suspended because it was using too many system resources (CPU and memory) for shared hosting.
“Your account is consuming about 10.66% of CPU resources on a shared server, which is not a fair share. We had no choice but to block the web access of following script to stabilize the server,” the message said.
I can’t remember when I installed Akismet on this site, but it was probably six or seven years ago. The latest stats show that Akismet has blocked 81,016 spam comments for an accuracy rate of 99.83 percent. Good work!
I received an email from The Blogger Team saying one of my sites had been marked as an evil spam blog. The email urged me to request a review if I disputed the classification and went on to say: “Your blog will be deleted in 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and your readers will [...]
Another scam email that landed in my inbox claimed to be from the Australian Taxation Office. Purporting to be from the email address refund@ato.com.au it said I was entitled to a $250 refund on my Visa or Mastercard. I knew it was fraudulent immediately, of course. The ATO doesn’t have my Yahoo! address, doesn’t communicate [...]
I’m sick of receiving spam emails claiming to be from the Commonwealth Bank. They have been flooding my ymail address for weeks and now they’re infiltrating my Google hosted email as well. I’m not even a customer of the Commonwealth Bank. But every message needs to be read and marked as spam, which wastes time [...]
