I just received an email from project honey pot, 1 billion spammers have been served. The details are below:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a
milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was
an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email
address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a
single spam email, the billionth message represents the collective work of
you and tens of thousands of other web and email administrators like you in
For the last 3 years we have been focussed on coding languages. A tiny community we may be, but most of our communication happens via IRC.
Originally, I intended to have the site simply for IRC related coding, however, this is a very small sector so I decided to focus on common coding languages, whether IRC related or not.
Now, as time goes on, another change is due I think. It's time to focus on all things geek. This is in order to attract more people to the site, and create a more intertwined community.
As you may be aware there are a few bots that reside in the IRC channel that offer various services. The main bot which contained the help database and various other scripts (google etc..) is currently down.
My shell company has decided to change datacenters, they did provide me with a new password, however it is not working, so I am now waiting for them to send me a new password.
All files should be present, just a matter of changing the IP and reloading the bots and setting up crontab again. Should be back in a few days, hopefully wont be missed too much!
Some of you may have been experiencing permission errors while trying to create forum content (Thanks for bringing to my attention Daemonseed).
This should now be fixed. As always, any issues, let me know!
Another day, another update.
The static pages are now all up. I am aware of the issue with the use of mibbit and IrCQNet, this will be dealt with while I find a suitable java/flash alternative.
All members were sent an email to reactivate their accounts, as passwords were lost while users were being transferred. This is also a good way to determine who still has correct contact information with us after over 2 years of inactivity for some!
Time for an update as to what's been happening over the past few days:
* Forums up and running
* Users all moved over from SMF to drupal (You may have to use the reset password link)
* IRC Chat page up (using mibbit - I'm not a fan, but will be looking into alternatives meanwhile)
* About page is up
Now that the hardest bit is done, I will continue moving over the old static pages onto here. Expect another update soon.
We are currently undergoing a major change in finally switching to a CMS, while this takes place, the forum will remain in accessible.
I am actually considering switching to the native forums and importing the previous posts over from the old SMF install. Still deciding on that however!
