Posted by Mikko (193.234.247.51) on January 21, 2003 at 14:41:56:
In Reply to: Interesting history of the beginning of this Message Board, even my posts.. posted by Flower Pagan (68.35.113.192) on January 21, 2003 at 14:20:16:
> I have noticed that a lot of the early post in the 1997 are replaced by
> Earth to 9types." What is wrong that board? What has happened to our original posts? I found my original three posts. This is my third one.
--The way the board works is that it reads the current message number from a text file and assigns it as the name of the html message page. For example, 35611.html if the last message number was 35610.
I can't remember exactly how the problem occurred, if it was the result of heavy spamming or something else, (I've deleted the emails where I discussed with Becca about it a long time ago) but the number in the text file was reset to 1 for some reason. When it happened, the original html pages containing the messages were overwritten. I think the number had to be manually corrected to avoid that.
This board has been and is vunerable to errors like that, because it doesn't utilize a database whose internal functions would make it possible to avoid them.