Auspice spamming help

JohnB · Posted: Feb 29, 2004 5:45pm Post subject: Auspice spamming help

Hey

I added some newsflash to auspice services now i got spam

NewsFlash: Free Friend Finder Services, fast and secure at http://www.web141.com

I looked in the newsflash list (of course) but its not listed there, just the two other items I added....where can i delete the spam message?

Thanks in advance!

JohnB
SearchIRC.com

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

Sounds like someone has access to your news section. I don't use auspice, but if there is something you can set on it to make that section only accessible to staff or higher level staff, you may want to do so.

upinsmoke · Posted: Mar 01, 2004 12:40pm Post subject:

the spam message is in the source code of auspice if your using the *nix version look in auspice/src for the file auspice.c search for the word friend and u will see a block of code that looks something like this

void checkflash ()
{
User *user;
if (nnewsflash == 0) return;
if (curflash >= nnewsflash) {
for (user = userlist; user; user = user->next)
send_cmd(server_name, "304 %s :\00312News\0034Flash\3: Free Friend Finder Services, fast and secure at http://www.web141.com", user->nick);
curflash = 0;
} else {
for (user = userlist; user; user = user->next)
send_cmd(server_name, "304 %s :\00312News\0034Flash\3: %s", user->nick, NewsFlash[curflash].text);
curflash++;
}

replace the spam message with your own message then re compile

JohnB · Posted: Mar 01, 2004 3:05pm Post subject:

Thanks very much upinsmoke!! did the job perfectly!

JohnB

anifinder · none Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 28

Now hold on just a minute. Since when did Auspice decide to hard-code advertisements into its newsflash routines? The fact that you didn't know about it is a little alarming. Anything about it on their site?

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

Gotta pay the bills somehow I guess Smile

Seriously though, thats....odd. I could understand dropping stops into the config to make sure you don't run it without configuring it, but to have to dig through code to remove spam. Yuck.

SBHACMatt · none Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 7

exOdus · none Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 10

It's a pity that they had to do that.. spam is already a big issue on IRC, and for a set of services to be doing it doesn't really help out.

Jay · none Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 43

you got to get the cash from someone, but harcoding the spam isn't a solution I think. Better to it another way.

Too bad auspices has decided to take such a route ... I'm glad with my anope services Wink

JohnB · Posted: Mar 02, 2004 10:32am Post subject: