ThatAdamGuy

Ah, nevermind... (my topic was merged)... and I should have noticed the earlier query and responses. Thanks, David, for the informative replies!

I'm interested in participating in the new Google sitemap project, and using their Site Map Generator. Would it be possible to run this python script via cPanel?

Ah, good point, thanks! Do you know of an easy way to resolve IP addresses, or visa versa? I don't know what address foo.com resolves to.

When I write about foo.com in my blog, I'm always curious to know when people from that firm are reading the entry. I know, via awstats, I can see whether someone from foo.com has accessed my site... but how can I tell: - What pages someone from foo.com accessed - When these page were accessed - How many times these pages were accessed by someone from foo.com? I know I can get cool stats like this from third party hosted services, like VisitorVille, but that seems like a pricey and heavy solution for what I'd think would be a pretty simple set of queries. Any ideas?

No, ASX has nothing to do with active X! It's a streaming media 'stub' file... it contains information on a media file; it's like an m3u or pls file in a way. Google for more info

Yep, sure did. No dice. One of the wikis runs on Windows (on an individual's machine), another is kaput, and so on. Thanks for the pointer, though!

I appreciate the reply, Lisa (you rock... always very helpful!) I'm puzzled, though, why there seem to be no non-hosted wysiwyg wiki engines available. I'd think that many folks would appreciate the convenience of such stuff, and I can't imagine this being that challenging to implement technically.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I am aware of HTML Area, but wasn't sure how I'd integrate that with a standard wiki package. Also, Lisa, regarding MediaWiki... I looked on their site, but couldn't see anything about wysiwyg. Furthermore, when I played in the Wikipedia sandbox, I didn't see any wysiwyg controls. Also, when I edited a page in eewiki, I saw formatting control buttons, but no wyswig views. What am I missing here? Frankly, I'm looking for something like EditMe or SeedWiki but hosted on my server here.

I've discovered some promising Wiki hosting services, but since I'm already paying for my TCH account and already have my own domains, I'd much rather host a wiki on my own! The problem I'm having is that I've not yet been able to find any wikis that offer wysiwyg editing, and -- since I'll be having some non-geek friends participate that don't know and don't want to learn wiki markup -- wysiwyg capabilities are important! I've tried googling for this info (obviously!), but have come up empty handed. Any suggestions?

Ah, and a relatively recent thread, too. The one time I'm too lazy (or stupid) to search first. Sorry 'bout that, and thanks for the friendly pointer!

I know it's only a minor nuisance, but I'm really peeved that when I look at my referrers on awstats, I see hot-babes-for-you.info and other assorted charming sites clogging up the list (and, most likely, stealing my bandwidth, too). Are there any general referrer blacklists maintained (or maintainable) against these jerks like this that'd help mitigate this situation? Any way to create blacklist filters in awstats directly?

Hi there, I have the URL http://smilezone.fotki.com/ as part of my paid membership with fotki.com, but would rather have photos.smilezone.com. I've seen other fotki members somehow manage this, but don't know how they did it... and the person I spoke with at Fotki was clueless. Is this something that I'd be able to do from this end here at TCH by somehow changing the DNS info of a subdomain?

Ack... it seems that BlogHosts is -- at least temporarily -- totally dead. I tried to pull up the site of a poor friend who still has her domain hosted with them, and I get a server error. Just sent her a test e-mail, and it hasn't bounced back, but I don't know if she got it (she's at work now and I haven't been able to reach her). Definitely glad I moved over to TCH when I did and didn't instead hang out another month or two on Bloghosts!

Actually, my stats DID copy over automatically, surprisingly.

Jamas, I can't speak for TCH (I'm just a recent customer, actually, also a Bloghosts refugee), but I would like to strongly urge you to move off of Bloghosts ASAP. Given the situation with that company, I don't think you can count on them to reliably deliver your e-mail or host your site even up through the end of the year... so it's worth paying for an extra month with TCH just for the peace of mind. I actually recently paid for a full year on a reseller account with Bloghosts (ack!), but moved to TCH earlier this month. Despite a bit of bumpiness, I believe I made a smart decision.

Hey Bill, I definitely appreciate the direct (and prompt!) response. If you'd be inclined to detail why you're particularly un-fond of vBulletin, that'd be cool, but I'll understand if you'd prefer not to. I'm not looking to debate, just learn. I currently run an IPB 1.3 forum on one of my sites, and am about ready to buy a vBulletin license and convert it over... but if there are some issues I should be aware of, I'm all ears, er, eyes. Anyway, with all that said, I'd like to note that I am quite appreciative that TCH has such a comprehensive and useful forum, regardless of the software.

Top five reasons why TCH should move its forum over to vBulletin software: 5) InvisionBoard forums have always been plagued with a notoriously unreliable e-mail-upon-reply notification system. Not sure what I mean? I'd be happy to offer details. 4) InvisionBoard management has acted unprofessionally (promised an always-free version, then reneged on this promise... just for starters) 3) I feel that vBulletin 3.0 is a nicer system to use -- from both a user and admin perspective -- than IBP 2.0 (and yes, I've tried both) 2) Jelsoft has been around longer than IPS and, IMHO, is likely to be around much longer. 1) vBulletin offers slick (and optional) WYSYWIG editing. Hey, it's not a top reason, but I couldn't think anything else at the moment (aren't the other four enough? )

Since I've been getting an enormous amount of spam at adam@[firstdomain], I decided to make a fresh start... selecting adam@[newdomain] and using that new address only with friends and never posting it in any newsgroup, on any Web page, etc. So far, so good. adam@[otherdomain] has gotten barely a hundredth of the spam the other address gets. Now I'd like to do a full shift to my new address, but I don't want to leave friends behind! Literally hundreds of friends, family members, acquaintances know me by my old address, and so I thought... no problem, I'll just create an autoresponder on my old domain, telling people to please resend their note to my new domain. The problem is, 99% of the mail I'm getting at the old domain is spam with non-existent 'from' addresses. That means that when the autoresponder responds, the mail bounces back to my primary (hosting) POP account... which then requires that I clean out that account on a regular basis! Since I don't use my primary POP account for any real mail, I suppose I could just POP it every hour or two and have my client delete all that mail. But that seems pretty inelegant. Any other (better) ideas for ways in which I could have an autoresponse go out to people who mail me at old addresses? I've actually thought about getting one of those commercial challenge-response programs like qurb, but I only want this to apply to one of my many POP accounts, not everything in my Outlook! Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Jamas, Not only does TCH allow MT, but it runs WAY faster than on BlogHosts. My comments and entries post considerably faster!

Yes, but as I've noted elsewhere, that's not an option. It renders my anti-spam strategy unworkable. So the solution I've now decided upon is have somerandomaddress@dodgeit.com (see details) as my default address. No worries about :fail: or :blackhole: and my e-mail filters still work!

Okay, now I feel stupid! I had used "discard" instead of ":fail:" The latter does the trick (assuming I pair this with the cron job to keep :blackhole: on this domain instead of :fail:). Btw, TCH folks... just as a reassurance... except for this recent incidence, I have very little spam going to this particular domain. I'll be using :fail: for all my other domains soon.

Don, I posted about the same issue here. You'll find the responses informative I think. I do hope the TCH team publicly discloses this issue to all current and future accountholders so others are not surprised or upset by the action.

I'm also open to considering completely other anti-spam techniques, as I note here.

As noted in another topic, before moving to TCH, I had begun using [sitename]-foo@mysite.com addresses when filling out forms on the Web to combat the spam problem I've experienced (about 300-400 spams DAILY). I set up a filter rule to forward all mail with "-foo" in the TO header to a-pop-account@mydomain, and set the default address to :blackhole: (setting it to :fail: resulted in cPanel ignoring the -foo rule). All was good with the world. Then earlier this week, one company I gave my e-mail address to sold my address to spammers, and I started receiving 10 spams a day at thosejerks-foo@mysite.com. So I added a new filter rule to delete any mail being sent to that address. Problem is, that rule is, well, overruled by the rule that allows mail sent to anything-foo@mysite.com. Sure, I could create a rule client-side to delete such mail, but then I still have to download it. * * * So... are there any solutions that allow me to use addresses on the fly (so I can trace when my address is given to spammers, and then shut down that address)? I could use disposable addressing via dodgeit.com or bloglines, but that really is inconvenient! I'm paying for personal domains / hosting, and I'd like to use those resources for all my mail Thanks in advance for any insights you can offer!

Following up... I don't get it. Why does having the server send a bounce message require less in the way of resources than simply sending it to /dev/null? Because, for the last few months, I've created many dozens of [sitename]-foo@**** addresses (e.g., amazon-foo@****, espn-foo@****, etc.). I don't remember 'em all, and would understandably be peeved to have bunches of mail returned to sender. Along the same lines, it'd be a royal PITA to go into my control panel and add a new forwarding rule for every single new address I register. Aside from the annoyance each time, imagine scrolling through and maintaining such a list! * * * Other suggestions so far: 1) Have something on my account toggled which'd eliminate the changing of :blackhole: to :fail:, but would remove my ability to add forwarders and such on my own; I'd have to request assistance from tech support each and every time. Definitely not a feasible option for me. 2) Set up an "undo" cron job that resets the default from :fail: to :blackhole:. I haven't quite understand how I'm to set this up, and probably should follow up with the TCH tech person that suggested this option. In a worst case scenario, I end up missing e-mails that happen to arrive between 3:00 and 3:01, but I guess that's the best alternative so far. Any other ideas? Is there another way of mimicking the system I have in place to achieve the same ends without kludges? Specifically, being able to create [sitename]-foo@**** addresses on the fly, and then if any address gets on a spammer list at a later time, simply sending creating a rule to :fail: or :blackhole: that specific address. Thanks! I appreciate the conversation and brainstorming here.