wallace winfrey

Unfortunately, our main web server disk partition filled up and folks were unable to post to the forum for about 7 hours. I was receiving notifications via email of the disk's impending "full" status but was, at the time, commuting on a plane out to San Francisco and did not get them until very recently.

I've fixed the problem, it looks like a spambot was pounding our forms, either trying to perform captcha bypass (we saw some of this activity recently with the "shoes" posts) or to search our site for replica watches and herbal viagra (they weren't searching, actually, just posting their spam to any open form) -- this had the unfortunate effect of logging their POST attempts, strings and all, to our logs, and due to the volume over the last few days, was able to push our filesystem into the danger zone.

I've got a fix for this. In the meantime, just realize, our server boxes are actually sentient and psionically "know" when I am out of reach, and will broadcast their vulnerability to spammers and other ne'er-do-wells, at least, that's the theory anyway ;-)

'Disk full error' fixed