Technical Difficulties

The experiment at sodsbrood may be over, at least for me, anyway. I have been locked out of my blog since last Friday, and as another Friday is fast approaching, I have to consider that I may never post at sodsbrood again.

My technical difficulties began sometime late in the afternoon on Friday the sixteenth. My friend, an administrator of sodsbrood, sent me an email he had received from the owners of our server space. The text of that brief email was as follows:

Hi,

We've disabled access to the public_html/pilgrim account. A script (send.php) located in that account was being used to send out spam. Please contact us asap so that we can resolve this matter.

If you have any further questions or experience any problems, please let us know. Thank you.

Regards,

[name withheld]

We both responded ASAP as requested, but in the ensuing six days we have not received a single email either explaining why the account was summarily locked nor how to fix this problem.

From what I gather, the people who own the server space believe that I am a spammer. Thus, if you try to go navigate to my sodsbrood blog, you are greeted with the ominous message "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /pilgrim on this server." My own investigation reveals that the permissions have been changed on my "pilgrim" directory, which is the UNIX equivalent of changing the locks on the doors of a house. I can't even redirect traffic here to my Blogger site.

For an indefinite period of time, I am going to try to pick up where I left off at sodsbrood and continue to blog from here, my Blogger site. I hope you will bear with me as I readjust to "blog serfdom" at Blogger, and be prepared for another address change if suddenly, miraculously my sodsbrood space is unlocked.