Hopefully this will be a temporary & short-term thing, while I work out how to hunt down & assasinate the spammers with my sweet nunchuck skills & bow hunting skills etc etc ..
Okay seriously .. the issue is this, my swanky new host Thinkivity have informed me: The script (/usr/bin/perl -w mt-comments.cgi) was using more than 50% of the servers CPU and more than 80% memory usage. More than 20 instances of this script were running at the same time.
If this continued it was likely at some point the whole thing would crash, as had done in the past while I was with Fuitadnet (except them buggers didn't know why & just restarted the server). So I need to take some serious measures to stop the spamming. - Investigation Pending.
Frontpage updated. looks sweet in IE and a scrambled heap in Firefox, probably due to some css error or form defaulting left alignment or something .. working on it.
test for 24 hours - then c if crawled upon
Here's something else I forgot to tell you in the email about Spam. Do all that stuff I said, but even after that you'll have a situation where a spammer starts injecting directly to your script.
In those circumstances just do a script name change, alter the CFG file and rebuild all entries.
If you work up a nice relationship with your hosting company (mine are superb) they'll do things like contact you as soon as things start going wrong, disable your comments script automatically and wait half an hour or so to re-enable it, and take your word for it when you do a script rename and rebuild and allow you to re-enable the commenting.