RE: [cobalt-users] Gossamer Links SQL

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>Anyone know the answer to this? Some users have had to do som
||>reconfig to get this working on Raq2. Is this also the case on Raq4 ?
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||>Gossamer-threads.com : Links SQL is the name....

Haven't tried it on the RaQ4, and I would honestly suggest you go to
Gossamer-Threads.Com and read the support forums before you allow it to be
installed on *your* RaQ4.
While this is a wonderful script (I own a paid-for, registered copy), it is
*very* server intensive. With a nominal site not so much, but if the website
is even moderately busy it will keep the cpu chugging away.
Then when the user has to update the script; thankfully it has an option to
do it in short bursts but it's still busy for a good ten minutes straight.

And god help you if spammers find it. They'll plug it into every free
search-engine submission form they can find.
Some e-business multi-level-marketing spammers found my Links engine and
they were submitting 200-300 links per day. I had a moderately private site,
with a loyal user base of about only 150 people. Of course, we verified the
links by hand...
Even after threatening legal action to the referring sites that were letting
their MLM spammers keep submitting to our private search engine, they
wouldn't stop.
We finally had to shut down the Links engine completely.

Don't get me wrong. I love the script. But be *very* careful with it. There
are too many people who would take advantage of it... and eat up your
resources.

Carrie Bartkowiak

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