Someone has published a For Sale Post on The InterPost that apparently seems to be for a gold cluster diamond ring for the price of 1 (one) Pakistani Rupee.

This may sound odd in itself but more oddly the Post has the title; Hiring Ad paste- “SH”

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After adding the Questions type to The InterPost a few days ago a just notice that some of the Types/Categories combinations weren’t working properly.

I couldn’t work out the problem for a while then I realised the database structure that runs the site didn’t cater for growth on new Types of Posts.

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Even with the power of some search engines and the knowledge of people that I can ask, I have found it difficult to find answers to some of my questions/problems.

Some questions to date have remained unanswered however even some attention to questions would have helped as I believe that not all every question will have one specific answer (e.g. What is the meaning of life?).

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When you want to really know or find out something from someone, don’t you simply state what you want without embellishments? If not, then I’d be surprised if you received any useful feedback and perhaps you may simply get ignored.

Alternatively, when you have something to offer and need buyers/attention, isn’t it best to simply state what you have rather than put frills on it.

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Whether or not you’ve noticed already, I have created a section on The InterPost sites that allows you to advertise Xmas and NYE related information such as events and products.

You can see where such items are linked from here.

This link shows what people have already Posted about Christmas and the New Year.

When you Post something to do with Xmas/NYE simply make sure that you have appropriate wording in your Post (e.g. Christmas, New Year).

Whoops !

I decided to take the old Set Forever site down after I decided to re-think how it would work. However some of the code on the site powered The InterPost websites and these sites stopped functioning. I’ve put back the appropriate code on Set Forever and the warning should now not appear.

Just trying to get your attention !

And now that I have, I would like to tell you about something….

I was getting problems with users spamming TheInterPost (online advertising & sales) with Adverts and once the spamming was noticed I used their I.P Address to ban them from using the site.

Well… that’s what I thought… I was actually using their proxy address. For those of you who do not know what a proxy address is, here goes: a server relaying to a user’s machine which works between the the Internet and the user’s machine. It can perform various functions such as caching web pages to speed up browsing, protecting you with a firewall to stop uninvited incoming traffic, etc. ISPs tend to use proxy servers for these purposes and often to help resolve browsing problems when some users cannot access websites.

Anyway, back to my issue. I found out that I was banning whole sets of users as the proxy address was obviously shared by the users(who were spamming) and all the other users using the same ISP’s proxy as the spammer… Whoops!

So I updated the code on TheInterPost to attempt to detect a proxy and if there was one to differentiate between it and the actual IP address of the user.

This might sound all technical, but it’s useful for this sort of security/management issue and so is the other information that you can capture about users. What you do with this information is up to you but on a positive note and for users who use the web with consideration, I.P. addresses an other technical user information often helps in enhancing the user’s browsing experience.