View Full Version : DEBATE?: Servers Being Overloaded
TiggerFreak
07-10-2002, 08:33 PM
In deference to a recent comment from one of the more astute posters and in the interests of conserving server space, I have removed the listing of visits to WDW from the end of my sig.
Down with POST polution.
NO MORE SPAM IN POSTS ;)
I will post no trip on the bottom line :rolleyes:
I urge all loyal DIS posters to follow suit:cool: ;) :) :D
MikeScott8
07-11-2002, 06:42 AM
a comment as a computer programmer. The signature that is shown, is only stored once, not with every message. This can be noted because when you change you signature it changes on ALL you posts even previously posted ones. So when the server is building the page it just referecnes the sig in your profile and inserts it when it sees a post from you. so having a small sig does not reduce storage needs on the server that much. If it stored your current sig with each post (as in another board I use, does) big sigs being saved over and over and over would crush the servers.
Mike
TiggerFreak
07-11-2002, 01:14 PM
It was a joke:(
Walt's Frozen Head
07-11-2002, 01:19 PM
Everyone should use the smallest possible font to save disk space, too...
MikeScott8
07-11-2002, 01:20 PM
sorry I guess I didn't realize that it was a joke.
Mike
All Aboard
07-11-2002, 04:23 PM
What was that WFH? I couldn't read your post!
TiggerFreak
07-13-2002, 12:01 AM
Mike,
No need to be sorry.
I am also a programmer, and as you well know some of us have very warped funny bones.
Some of the others in the our shop have told me never to retell their jokes, because I always manage to put the punch line in the middle:p
Kevin
Janet2k
07-13-2002, 01:46 AM
Walt's Frozen Head, I found your post particularly funny. ;) Thanks for the chuckle.
Walt's Frozen Head
07-13-2002, 08:11 AM
Thanks for the chuckle You're welcome. In the interest of full disclosure, I must confess I lifted that joke whole from a Scott Adams Dilbert cartoon.
It had made me laugh, too.
-WFH
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