March 13-14 Forum Downtime - RF Cafe Forums

RF Cafe Forums closed its virtual doors in late 2012 mainly due to other social media platforms dominating public commenting venues. RF Cafe Forums began sometime around August of 2003 and was quite well-attended for many years. By 2012, Facebook and Twitter were overwhelmingly dominating online personal interaction, and RF Cafe Forums activity dropped off precipitously. Regardless, there are still lots of great posts in the archive that ware worth looking at. Below are the old forum threads, including responses to the original posts. Here is the full original RF Cafe Forums on Archive.org

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 Post subject: March 13-14 Forum Downtime
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:39 pm 
 
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm
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Location: Erie, PA
Greetings:

As you probably noticed, the Forum was not working properly for the last 20 hours or so. I'm not sure how, but a couple of the files got corrupted. The good news is that they have been repaired and all is well again.

:smt038

Thanks for your patience, and happy posting!!!!

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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:56 am 
 
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Greetings:

An interesting result of the forum being down for almost a day is that since it has been back up and running again, the number of spam registrations and posts has decreased significantly. All I can figure is that the software bots and the heroin junkies that manually perform the registration (which requires visual confirmation of a code) must hit a seemingly dead forum and remove it from their lists. Maybe it would be a good strategy to shut the form off for a few hours once a month or so. I'll have to do a little Web research on the topic to see if there is any validity to my theory, or if it is merely a coincidence.

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- Kirt Blattenberger :smt024
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster




Posted  11/12/2012