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so, a "file in the temp directory" was responsible, eh?

Interesting that this "file in the temp directory"...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
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Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
Ruh roh
Brass theater dog poop
  09/23/10
next he blamed search, but unfortunately that doesn't explai...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
What are you talking about? No one's been banned.
rachmiel
  09/23/10
some people were still able to post?
Thriller theater stage haunted graveyard
  09/23/10
tcr HTTP/1.1 200 OK
fuchsia center round eye
  09/23/10
Okay, "dear leader." PSA to everyone: when the...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
lol
Bat-shit-crazy lodge
  09/23/10
...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
i got excited about this but then i remembered that i unsucc...
concupiscible state
  09/23/10
from an IP from which xoxo had been accessed before. doze...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
So, wait, it's worse, because rach has been keeping a massiv...
Cracking Yarmulke Giraffe
  09/23/10
he must have been. otherwise the site wouldn't have been dis...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
eh i had accessed it from a different comp in the cluster bu...
concupiscible state
  09/23/10
They all have the same external IP. If one is banned, they a...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
Yeah, I had a non poaster try to access the site and she cou...
bateful tantric headpube heaven
  09/23/10
lol, the mods are circling the wagons around rach even if...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
weird is there a qualitative diff b/w proxy ips and non-p...
concupiscible state
  09/23/10
no relevant difference. remember, rach's claim is basically ...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
I'm a mod?
bateful tantric headpube heaven
  09/23/10
runaway temp file = no one accesses the site. but everyone c...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
a lot of people in tiny chat used a proxy and got in easily
Nighttime cerebral meetinghouse azn
  09/23/10
1. rachmiel's account has actually been hacked, and that hac...
Cracking Yarmulke Giraffe
  09/23/10
some of a-f may have been posting through proxies
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
so it looks like some proxies change ips for every new link ...
concupiscible state
  09/23/10
the posting proxies vs. non-posting proxies is a red herring...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
that's what i'm getting at. i don't think anything was spec...
concupiscible state
  09/23/10
cr
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  09/23/10
You might consider going to BLB. (1) The dev is very resp...
Brindle ticket booth
  09/24/10
NEVER FORGET
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  12/22/10
...
Awkward Mad Cow Disease
  01/10/11


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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:11 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

Interesting that this "file in the temp directory" IP-banned every single poster but allowed other IPs to access the board.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124494)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:21 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124523)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:22 PM
Author: Brass theater dog poop

Ruh roh

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124528)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:23 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

next he blamed search, but unfortunately that doesn't explain the all-posters IP ban either

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124534)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:24 PM
Author: rachmiel (white knighting)

What are you talking about? No one's been banned.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124543)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:25 PM
Author: Thriller theater stage haunted graveyard

some people were still able to post?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124548)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:26 PM
Author: fuchsia center round eye

tcr

HTTP/1.1 200 OK



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124553)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:26 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

Okay, "dear leader."

PSA to everyone: when the board was "down" due to a "temp file," all poster IPs were blocked but historical non-poster IPs could access the site and post.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124556)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:26 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy lodge

lol

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124560)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:31 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124595)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:33 PM
Author: concupiscible state

i got excited about this but then i remembered that i unsuccessfully tried to access xo from a public computer

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124612)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:34 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

from an IP from which xoxo had been accessed before.

dozens of people in tinychat during the "temp file outage" verified this

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124630)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:36 PM
Author: Cracking Yarmulke Giraffe

So, wait, it's worse, because rach has been keeping a massive IP log???

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124649)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:39 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

he must have been. otherwise the site wouldn't have been discriminating by IPs.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124686)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:38 PM
Author: concupiscible state

eh i had accessed it from a different comp in the cluster but not that one

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124673)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:42 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

They all have the same external IP. If one is banned, they are all banned.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124715)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:35 PM
Author: bateful tantric headpube heaven

Yeah, I had a non poaster try to access the site and she couldn't.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124631)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:37 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

lol, the mods are circling the wagons around rach

even if this were true, it wouldn't matter. runaway temp file = no one accesses the site. but everyone could access the site via proxies.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124667)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:39 PM
Author: concupiscible state

weird

is there a qualitative diff b/w proxy ips and non-proxy ones

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124693)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:41 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

no relevant difference. remember, rach's claim is basically that the server couldn't function b/c of the "temp file." but then absolutely no IP address should have been able to access xoxohth.

also notice how rach has suddenly gone silent as he is weaving a new web of lies.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124706)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:40 PM
Author: bateful tantric headpube heaven

I'm a mod?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124697)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:45 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

runaway temp file = no one accesses the site. but everyone could access the site via proxies.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124743)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:38 PM
Author: Nighttime cerebral meetinghouse azn

a lot of people in tiny chat used a proxy and got in easily

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124674)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:45 PM
Author: Cracking Yarmulke Giraffe

1. rachmiel's account has actually been hacked, and that hacker continues to run XO from that hacked account.

um, "rachmiel" = hacker that took over xoxo

2. "file in the temp directory" that was overloaded actually logged all users who have ever visited XO, and all of their IP addresses were excluded from XO. First-time visitors from that IP address could post.

so, a "file in the temp directory" was responsible, eh?

3. Mods could post during the blackout.

um, "rachmiel" = hacker that took over xoxo

4. Posters who could post during the blackout.

a. David Alan Grier

HEY RACH XO IS DOWN!

b. moisttowelettedood

oh??

c. Pliny the Elder

Anecdotes from an alpha aspie ADA.

d. a dood's dood

Is xoxo really down? Here's a post

e. Assless CRAPs

Yep, still the only person poasting on XO

f. 99 rejection letters (vs. )

I'm probably going to kill myself if I don't make half a mil/yr

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124749)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 8:58 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

some of a-f may have been posting through proxies

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124879)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 9:10 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124953)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 9:12 PM
Author: concupiscible state

so it looks like some proxies change ips for every new link while others just use one for a given browsing session. this could help explain why some people were able to post and others weren't--how often their ip changed determined whether they were perceived as a new visitor or not.

i never accessed xo during the crash, though. to those of you who did: were you able to click on threads?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124966)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 9:15 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

the posting proxies vs. non-posting proxies is a red herring. posting requires a certain amount of statefulness which some proxies might be able to achieve and all normal non-banned IPs would be able to achieve.

the real issue is the IP-ban on all posters when rach claimed that a "temp file" was to blame

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124980)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 9:16 PM
Author: concupiscible state

that's what i'm getting at. i don't think anything was special about these posters. i think rach's consistent lack of forthrightness w/r/t IPs is the concern here

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124987)



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Date: September 23rd, 2010 9:17 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

cr

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16124998)



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Date: September 24th, 2010 8:21 AM
Author: Brindle ticket booth

You might consider going to BLB.

(1) The dev is very responsive

(2) It has a red pillar. Red pillars are awesome. And stronger than \ hooks.

(3) No IP tracking, period. If that changes, the board will be notified with a STICKY.

(4) It's moderated, but poasts are almost never deleted (harassment of non-public individuals is pretty much the only time). You can opt into viewing NSFW/Spam poasts.

(5) Multiple monikers are allowed per-account, so you don't have to log out/in.

(6) Poasts in a thread are color-coded by time. Oldest poasts are dark red, newer poasts are brighter red.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16129112)



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Date: December 22nd, 2010 10:20 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease

NEVER FORGET

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#16878968)



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Date: January 10th, 2011 1:06 PM
Author: Awkward Mad Cow Disease



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1432132&forum_id=2#17018731)