Windows Phone Thoughts: "Email This Story" Feature Removed

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Friday, November 3, 2006

"Email This Story" Feature Removed

Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 10:00 AM

A quick update for everyone: some of you readers from outside North American may have noticed that for the past four nights our server has been conking out in the very early hours (North American time). We couldn't figure out why until today: it turns out we had a security hole in our "Email This Story" script, and someone has been using it to send spam using our server, mostly to AOL users it seems. I couldn't figure out why, for the past several days, I'd been receiving email automated messages from the AOL Postmaster program warning me about Thoughts Media sending out spam. I thought it was some AOL users who were getting the weekly newsletter, forgetting that they opted-in for it, not realizing they could turn it off in their account settings...then flagging it as spam. Looks like that wasn't the case, so I'm sorry for thinking the worst of you AOL users. ;-) At any rate, we've removed this feature for now and will replace it at some point in the future. I'm curious though, how often did you use this feature? Vote in the survey below or give me a comment back.

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