Archive for February, 2008

Once the site was ready enough to go online, I added Statcounter code and set it up to send me weekly summary reports by email. I’ve also written about each week’s triumphs and mishaps in more detail, to be serialized here in this blog (woohoo, exciting!) – just choose the
‘Launching a local directory’ category of posts to read all of them.

As a brief summary to anyone reading this post first, the website is a Joomla / Sobi2 based local directory for the county of Devon, which accepts family friendly free listings with a focus on arts and environmental groups, and offers paid-for extra features such as maps, galleries, ecards etc (some of which are free for artists and environmental groups).
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Here’s why I’m convinced that spam can’t all be entirely automated: I noticed some funny names cropping up as supposed email senders for a while and started collecting some of them:

Bulks P. Upbraiding
Unknown H. Litterbug
Ministerial B. Blab
Oxygenation J. Woozier
Outsides A. Postmark
Yuck Q. Infections
Impotence K. Sikh
Alphard L. Trampled
Kickoff J. Boyle
Dumfounding D. Flight
Atrocities L. Heretical
Disadvantageously G. Anniversary
Bricklayer B. Invasive
Profiting S. Agglomerates
Rashest D. Quintessential
Helm S. Malign

Boring day at the Spam office? It’s almost good to see some of this!