Security Update and Shipping Times
Well, I think I’ve finally put an end to the individual who has been spamming the Acne-Vitamins comments form. A helpful thread at webmasterworld contained some good advice that I’ve put to use, so now my formmail script is hard coded to prevent all but the most desperate spammers. It seems that an oversight in the script that I was using before could still have been exploited to send spam mail, but now the only person who should possibly be able to receive such mail is me, so hopefully this will be a decent deterrent to hackers, since configuring a spam sender for only one email address is obviously a waste of time. So far so good, results wise. The contact form still works fine for normal visitors, although the email field is required now.
In other news, it seems the postal service is still playing catch-up after Christmas. We’ve been notified by Acne Vitamins customers of a few late orders, and hopefully the USPS will get back up to speed shortly. At times like this it would be nice if Priority Mail included standard tracking numbers the way that UPS does, but alas, their only tracking service for normal (under $20) mailing options is delivery confirmation. DC is nice for knowing that a package has arrived, but it does nothing to ensure the package arrives, nor does it tell you where the package is if it hasn’t arrived yet, and so I find it’s more or less a useless option unless you’re sending something such as a check that you want to know arrived on time. In any case, I apologize for any orders that are taking longer to arrive than they should. You can be sure that all orders are being filled and sent promptly on our end.
