Apologies for the disappearance of the blog on Saturday 4 July. A large number of bots flooded the site with requests, causing the blog to overload and deny access to regular users.
Mr K was able to find way to block the bots and restore normal service. Thank you to him for giving up his time on Independence Day in America to resolve the issue.
Thank you, Prolixic and indeed we are very grateful to Mr. K for battling the bots. The dedication of those managing the blog is beyond compare.
Hats off to Mr K – and best thanks to Prolixic for letting us know.
Thank you Prolix,normality has been restored! keep up the great work.
Thank you, Prolixic for letting us all know.
And huge thanks to Mr K for getting it all fixed…especially on his holiday.
I did miss it…..
Thanks to all of you who do so much behind the scenes, for free, to keep us all entertained, but special thanks to Mr K for his computer wizardry.
Very frustrating – well done for sorting it out- I was missing my weekly crypticsue guidance particularly given the mistake in one of the clues!
Many thanks for putting our crossword world back together😆
Thank you so much for letting us know and of course for fixing it.
Quite missed the blog yesterday!
Thank you Mr K and Prolixic. We really missed the NTSPP and the rest of the Big Dave website yesterday, so pleased all is working smoothly again.
Big thanks to both of you. Much appreciated
Thank you Mr K. What would we do without you? Really missed the site yesterday.
Thanks everyone for the thanks. The challenge of getting us back online this time turned out to be more like a toughie than a back-pager, so unfortunately it took a while.
Many thanks for your sterling work, as someone who definitely needs all the help he can get to finish these crosswords!
Welcome to the blog, Bill.
Many thanks Mr K. Your efforts and your technical skills, are much appreciated.
Well done! Many thanks to both of you!
Thanks Mr K for giving up so much time to resolve this problem. And thanks to everyone for keeping the Big Dave up and running and giving so much pleasure to so many people.
A belated thank you to Mr K for restoring order from chaos. I hope it did not entirely ruin your holiday festivities.
Very grateful thanks to Prolixic and especially Mr K. One wonders what on earth those directing such attacks at sites like this hope to achieve.
Thankss to Prolixic, Mr K and all those who gave up their time to sort out those pesky bots. A plague on all time wasters who haunt the internet too
This is a rather late but extremely grateful ‘thank you’ to Mr K for restoring the Blog to normality.
What on earth was the point of the bots?
How very kind of you Mr K to have given up so much of your time and technical expertise. Not having the Blog leaves a big gap in one’s life.
Mea culpa! I may have added to your woes Mr K by repeatedly attempting to post a comment! Please forgive me.
Many appreciative thanks to Mr K and to Prolixic for letting us know.