Another first...
08-16-2019, 12:26 PM (This post was last modified: 08-16-2019, 12:28 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
08-16-2019, 12:26 PM (This post was last modified: 08-16-2019, 12:28 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
So, yesterday morning I was reading the board when a "new user registration" banner popped up. I may have mentioned it before, but in case I haven't, most of the folks here won't be aware that when someone requests membership, I send out a little email from the admin address asking them where they heard about the board. If I don't hear anything back in 48 hours, I assume they're a spammer -- and I tell them so in the email. I also check their IP at stopforumspam.com.
So, this new member... the IP turns up one record at Stop Forum Spam, like he's a brand new spammer just starting out. It's also for the same email address used to create their membership, so it's pretty obvious what's going on. But I have my procedure, so like ten minutes after this guy requested membership I sent out the email.
Three hours later, for the very first time, I get an email back from the spammer.
Who apparently is upset that I don't automatically allow him to blithely traipse through my board, sprinkling semi-literate scam pitches as he goes. He responds with a short, pithy and obscene message apparently intended to insult me, but which reads more like a six-year-old with a dirty mouth wrote it. Not sure what it was supposed to accomplish -- it certainly wasn't going to get his membership approved. Sorry, guy...
So, this new member... the IP turns up one record at Stop Forum Spam, like he's a brand new spammer just starting out. It's also for the same email address used to create their membership, so it's pretty obvious what's going on. But I have my procedure, so like ten minutes after this guy requested membership I sent out the email.
Three hours later, for the very first time, I get an email back from the spammer.
Who apparently is upset that I don't automatically allow him to blithely traipse through my board, sprinkling semi-literate scam pitches as he goes. He responds with a short, pithy and obscene message apparently intended to insult me, but which reads more like a six-year-old with a dirty mouth wrote it. Not sure what it was supposed to accomplish -- it certainly wasn't going to get his membership approved. Sorry, guy...
-- 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....
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....