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@ Petseri: DANKE!
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I saw them too when I logged on. :urff: They are in the bin now, maybe to be emptied soon. :roll:
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Gay Medical Fetish? :lol:

Those spambots are diverse, I'll give them that. :lol:
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We seem to be running about 10:1 spammers:legitimate users registering here. :urff: Just look at the most recent usernames. I suspect that there will be more space in the database in the near future.

On that note, I am off to empty to trash.
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
vicus wrote:could someone please ban alenucfnedolores and delete that rubbish?
He posted everywhere, and even started a second topic minutes after the first one ! :evil:


IZ.
..not unlike Blast Towers, actually... ;)

IZ.

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Petseri wrote:We seem to be running about 10:1 spammers:legitimate users registering here. :urff: Just look at the most recent usernames. I suspect that there will be more space in the database in the near future.

On that note, I am off to empty to trash.
Where's QB?

Maybe you Mods should shut the place down overnight and give the system a reboot :wink: or something :|
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Big Si wrote:
Petseri wrote:We seem to be running about 10:1 spammers:legitimate users registering here. :urff: Just look at the most recent usernames. I suspect that there will be more space in the database in the near future.

On that note, I am off to empty to trash.
Where's QB?

Maybe you Mods should shut the place down overnight and give the system a reboot :wink: or something :|
QB apparently needed a thread entitled Valentine, but he knows that it (like Santa Claus) never appears when he is here watching. ;D

The spammers are getting out of hand. Presumably QB will upgrade the registration when he gets back, but I too was under the impression that we were using the registration method described by Big Si above.

Shut the place down? Unthinkable. :!:
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Petseri wrote:
Shut the place down? Unthinkable. :!:
..and talk to the wife, unthinkable? :innocent:

(I really must get out/up fae the PC more) ;D
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Another one... *sigh

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one?
two!
three!!
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Four
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six (and still counting) :evil:
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Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen."

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vicus wrote:six (and still counting) :evil:
Aye, bastards :evil: , and that last one's prices are no cheaper than any of the others :innocent:
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abortedlife (at # 1941) should be in the list as well. That one posted once (a spam post), but it has since been binned and deleted.
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...waiting for the next 10 to arrive... :evil: :roll:
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You could take the very nasty tactic that I implemented on my Computer Security forum of residence. Post all spammer IPs and emails in a big global sticky disclaiming any responsibility for what happens to them as a result of said policy ;)
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Motz wrote:You could take the very nasty tactic that I implemented on my Computer Security forum of residence. Post all spammer IPs and emails in a big global sticky disclaiming any responsibility for what happens to them as a result of said policy ;)
I think you have to put something about that in the disclaimer they have to read through before subscribing before you can do that. Read that on another forum I subscribed to and seems a good idea to me (can also be used against people abusing the weeding section)
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vicus wrote:...waiting for the next 10 to arrive... :evil: :roll:
I am sure that they are here by now, with plenty of friends. :urff:
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Obviousman wrote:
Motz wrote:You could take the very nasty tactic that I implemented on my Computer Security forum of residence. Post all spammer IPs and emails in a big global sticky disclaiming any responsibility for what happens to them as a result of said policy ;)
I think you have to put something about that in the disclaimer they have to read through before subscribing before you can do that. Read that on another forum I subscribed to and seems a good idea to me (can also be used against people abusing the weeding section)
I am all for letting out information of bad reweeders. No surprises there.

For spammers, though, does it work? How much of a deterent is it? I would think that many use false email addresses (in as much as the accounts are used only to register, but for naught else). Does listing spammers' IPs really hurt them?
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Petseri wrote:I am all for letting out information of bad reweeders. No surprises there.

For spammers, though, does it work? How much of a deterent is it? I would think that many use false email addresses (in as much as the accounts are used only to register, but for naught else). Does listing spammers' IPs really hurt them?
I think most IPs are dynamic anyway, so it'll hardly have any effects, guess we'd have to see at the general picture more. Adding that clause will only do us good, I think
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Petseri wrote:Does listing spammers' IPs really hurt them?
They're probably faked as well.

How about entering a garbled sequence of letters from a displayed image file as a confirmation for registration, and maybe even as a "probationary" tactic for the first 5 emails of new members?
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mh wrote:a garbled sequence of letters
that's General Chat :lol:
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mh wrote:
Petseri wrote:Does listing spammers' IPs really hurt them?
They're probably faked as well.

How about entering a garbled sequence of letters from a displayed image file as a confirmation for registration, and maybe even as a "probationary" tactic for the first 5 emails of new members?
Thta is what I was wondering.

As for the second part, do you mean the confirmation as Big Si described on the first page of this thread?
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Petseri wrote:
mh wrote:
Petseri wrote:Does listing spammers' IPs really hurt them?
They're probably faked as well.

How about entering a garbled sequence of letters from a displayed image file as a confirmation for registration, and maybe even as a "probationary" tactic for the first 5 emails of new members?
Thta is what I was wondering.

As for the second part, do you mean the confirmation as Big Si described on the first page of this thread?
Yup, that's pretty much it.

I think a "probation" for the first 5 posts might also work well. It won't annoy new members too much (might even encourage them to post a bit more at the start!) but should kill off the bots which only ever post once anyway.
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I wouldn't be here if there was "probation" and you really wouldn't want that, now would you? :roll:
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