Comments Are Closed
I have been notified by my web host that my Moveable Type comments script is placing too heavy a load on his server. The last two days had me away from my usual routine and unable to be around to stop spam attacks before they snowball into something massive. My web host, a guy I've known for several years and who has extended one hell of a great deal to me during this time, has asked me to find another host because he simply cannot continue to operate his other websites and run my comments at the same time.
And despite my burning hatred of spammers, I still want an open comments system for my blog.
So, to keep my host happy in the short term, I'm closing all comments until further notice. If you wish to contribute something, please e-mail me at:
sarcastomatic
(at)
yahoo (dot) com
I request that you put something obvious in the subject line of your e-mail to differentiate it from the hundreds of crap messages I get every day with deceiving headings like
"hey""your site"
"URGENT"
"You gotta read this"
I suggest something like: "Comment for Magnifisyncopathological."
Please indicate that you want me to publish all or part of your comment. Assuming it is relevant and isn't full of shit (yes, for the purposes of my website that's a determination I get to make), I'll edit my post and append your comment to the bottom.
Hopefully, this situation won't last longer than a few weeks. At this point in time I can't really go out and look for a new web host, so I want to keep the one I have now happy. He's been an amazing guy, allowing me to run a website that consumes more than 10 gigabytes of bandwidth a month and 200+ megabytes of storage...for free.
Apologies for the upcoming inconvenience, but it must be done.
A big middle finger to the comment spammers that have (temporarily) screwed things up for my readers and ruined a worry-free deal I had going. You people fucking suck.