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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1161
Location: Tampa, FL
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 Posted: Jul 22, 2004 10:11pm Post subject: Forum requires registration |
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| At least for the time being, I've set the forums to require a registered username in order to post. I just spent half an hour deleting some asshat's spambot posts about gambling... |
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aquanight
Lurker
Joined: 14 Jun 2004
Posts: 118
Location: Boise, ID
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2004 10:15pm Post subject: |
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| Don't you just love/hate it when one idiot ruins things for everyone? |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1161
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2004 10:19pm Post subject: |
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| Yep... I personally dislike being forced to register on a forum, but in this case, a guy has a robot that crawls the forums posting spam. |
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w00t
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Joined: 09 Jun 2004
Posts: 699
Location: Nowra, Australia
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2004 10:22pm Post subject: |
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lol, stuffed up all my "new post" notifications, thats what REALLY annoyed me. But then, ive just learned to block advertising out!  (too much time on bad channels on dalnet and austnet. AUSTNET IS THE WORSE NET FOR SPAM!) |
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Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 26
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2004 8:02am Post subject: |
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Austnet is pretty bad.. but i reckon webnet can be worse  |
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animesoup
Newbie
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Posts: 82
Location: hiding in j00r closet
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2004 12:57pm Post subject: Re: Forum requires registration |
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| Jason wrote: | | I just spent half an hour deleting some asshat's spambot posts about gambling... |
Nice word..
I had to do the same thing. My forum recieved spam about russian brides..
I didnt want to do it either.. I made a section on my forum named 'Guest Fest', so when legitimate guests want to say something, it can be in a section.. And spam is a lot easier to track in one section rather than all over the forum..
Good luck combating the asshats |
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Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 26
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2004 5:03pm Post subject: Re: Forum requires registration |
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| animesoup wrote: | | ..I made a section on my forum named 'Guest Fest', so when legitimate guests want to say something, it can be in a section.. And spam is a lot easier to track in one section rather than all over the forum.. |
Nice and simple solution.. thanks for sharing |
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aquanight
Lurker
Joined: 14 Jun 2004
Posts: 118
Location: Boise, ID
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2004 5:54pm Post subject: |
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| It would appear there are still some spambot posts lurking about... |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1161
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2004 11:27pm Post subject: |
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| yep, I missed a few and the spam bots found it. They appear to be using random ips, random text, and random usernames. Hopefully this takes care of it. |
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Shii
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Joined: 10 Oct 2004
Posts: 3
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2004 6:54am Post subject: |
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| aquanight wrote: | | It would appear there are still some spambot posts lurking about... |
I guess registration doesn't actually keep out spam, eh? |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1161
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2004 8:19am Post subject: |
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| it seems to have stopped them. We were getting about 30 posts per minute by spambots. They were on random ip address, posting under random usernames, with random text. |
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LaFong
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Joined: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Jan 23, 2005 12:59pm Post subject: Trace the Spambot |
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Just trace the Spambot to its origin. Whoever is running the server might
roll on the Spambot owner. Scare the hell out of the Spambot owner and
others will leave you alone. |
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ed
SearchIRC Staff
Joined: 25 May 2003
Posts: 367
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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| Posted: Jan 23, 2005 2:40pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes I wonder if we should make the timestamp bigger... |
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