Question for tube site owners

[ecchi]

Well I don't know about tube sites, but I do the same thing with TGPs using a Perl script that I wrote myself. There are commercial scripts available in Perl, PHP, C, etc...... However I would strongly urge you to learn Perl and write your own scripts. If you put in a couple of hours a day you can learn enough to begin writing good scripts in less than a week, then learn anything else as you need it.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Well I don't know about tube sites, but I do the same thing with TGPs using a Perl script that I wrote myself. There are commercial scripts available in Perl, PHP, C, etc...... However I would strongly urge you to learn Perl and write your own scripts. If you put in a couple of hours a day you can learn enough to begin writing good scripts in less than a week, then learn anything else as you need it.

I think we are long past having to learn to code and write our own programs. This the script that I use.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I think we are long past having to learn to code and write our own programs.

Outsourcing - the first stage of giving away your money and control of your site. You buy an "off the peg" script and any other fool can buy the same script, take it apart and work out how to hack into your site.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Outsourcing - the first stage of giving away your money and control of your site. You buy an "off the peg" script and any other fool can buy the same script, take it apart and work out how to hack into your site.

You need to get some fresh tinfoil.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Cleo

You need to get some fresh tinfoil.

Actually I speak from experience. Although I know how to write a Perl script I know very little about email protocol. So a few years back when I needed a script that sent out an auto reply to people who used a form to ask me question, I bought an "off the peg" script to do this. Some asswipe who also owned the same script had worked out how to use the form to send out bulk spam. The first I knew about it was after one of the spam victims traced the spam to source, complained to my host, and they closed down all of my sites. It took we a week to prove to them that I was not sending the spam before they re-opened my sites. A week without earning. Plus by the time the sites came back several traffic trades and link trades had seen my sites 404ing and had dropped the trades/links. It took me over half a year to get my traffic levels back up to where they had been before I installed the script.

So stop advising newbies to risk getting in the same shit. I was an experienced WM when this happened and was able to take the loss of earnings and competent enough to fix the problem (all be it with a lot of work and a lot of time). If it had happened when I was a newbie I would probably have given up WMing and got back to being a jeweller or salesman.

Originally Posted by Cleo

Usually there is someplace in whatever script you are using to add the code so that it gets added to URL of whatever page your script sends surfers to.

(my bold italics added)

And this reply also makes my point. Because JefersoN is using an "off the peg" script that neither of us know, you are having to use words like "someplace" and "whatever" which, although you are trying to help, is basically saying "read the fucking manual". If JefersoN had written the script, then they would know what and where because they will have created the "someplace" themselves.

Also, if it turns out that this script does not actually do what JefersoN wants it to do, it is useless and they will have to shell out more money buying another script. If JefersoN had written this script themselves, they could simply adapt it a bit to make it do what they want it to do!