Hmm. On a slight tangent...I seem to recall having dropped a link to a group of people I know to one of the articles in the forums here (I forget which one offhand), but I don't think there were enough of them to cause a surge. But they would show up as 'guests', wouldn't they? And, is there a more proper way of making referals like that than linking to the forum thread?
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Are the spammers getting tired or something?
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Yeah, since you don't have to register to read the forums, they would show up as guests unless they chose to join.
As for "proper"... um, no. A link is basically it.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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Yeah, no. A new user whose email is "@loliporn.su" is not getting approved. Don't even need to check StopForumSpam on that one.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... 
*snirk* I'm reminded of the amusing results I sometimes see in my spam folder. Though I don't think anything yet has topped the one going on about the 'USLA agreement'...
... what's to rant about about lifeguards? Unless maybe it's not having enough of them at public beaches and pools to cover the demand...
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noli esse culus
*snirk again* Replace 'EU' (Europe) in a document with 'US', and *don't* pay attention to just what it replaces, and see what happens.
(04-13-2024, 08:38 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Yeah, no. A new user whose email is "@loliporn.su" is not getting approved. Don't even need to check StopForumSpam on that one. A second try isn't going to work, either.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
There's one spammer who seems to be absolutely desperate to get on the board. Very distinctive pattern -- while they use several different IPs, the account holder is always "Mike(Something)", and the email is always "mike(differentsomething)@gmail.com". Four tries to register got as far as administrator approval in the past few days, which suggests to me that I ought to strip out some of the security questions that can be answered by Googling them, and replace them with something more idiosyncratic.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....  (04-22-2024, 07:08 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: ... which suggests to me that I ought to strip out some of the security questions that can be answered by Googling them, and replace them with something more idiosyncratic. Not knowing which questions are on the list right now, you could add "What books has the forum owner written?" If I recall correctly, most of the titles start with the same five-letter string... 
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Hm. The way the security questions work, I'd have to make it "name one book" and the possible answers would be the list. It's not set up to let me test on substrings.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
RE: Are the spammers getting tired or something?
04-24-2024, 07:37 PM (This post was last modified: 04-24-2024, 07:38 PM by Vulpis.)
My sense of humor almost wonders if Mike is a 'Reverse Nigerian Prince' thing. (If you've never heard the joke, the idea is there's this prince sitting on piles of money that he can't *give* away..)
I wonder if Mike is someone who wants to legitimately use the board, but is convinced the subscription system is broken somehow. :-) Unlikely, I know.
It would be sort of funny/sad if that was the case, but no... StopForumSpam lists dozens of Mike incarnations spamming sites, all coming from the IP he signed up from.
-- Bob
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