We were hit :(

If you entered our beach competition yesterday, can you please come back and enter today? Yesterday we were hit by an automated entry site - I received nearly 5,000 mails to my inbox in the space of around 8 hours.

Sites like Win24, WeWin4U and PrizeDrawCentre charge a user a few pounds a month and then enter competitions for that person (and many others) using a script or program.
Fairly obviously we run competitoins because we like the traffic they bring - and our sponsors gain a mailing list of email addresses to mail product offers to, in return for giving away a freebie. Everyone wins. But these automated services are not doing on one any favours - for all those 5000 entries we had yesterday, not one went to the site. Cheats!

To top it all off, it is clearly stated in our comp T&C's that automated entries are simply disqualified - so not one of them was worth anything to anybody, simply a waste of time and bandwidth. Thankfully Katy has managed to block them now, but they're still pounding in to the server (just to bounceback).

So if you're real, and entered yesterday - you will probably have been deleted. please re-enter today!