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Postby silverseven » 16 May 2014 01:56

feel free to send it to any of them Steve!

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Postby whitenviro » 16 May 2014 03:27

Unfortunately, I think the spam is from a Bot machine so there is no-one listening at the other end. It just endlessly churns out semi-random messages to any URL it finds. There's a good chance someone on here that has caught a bug and their computer is being used as the Bot without their knowledge. That would explain how they are getting past the sign-in page. It's a brave new world out there!

Clay, thanks for keeping up on it and good luck with the medical stuff! I hope your recovery is as speedy as can be.


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Postby troydeon » 16 May 2014 13:30

Jclay,
I hope for the best for you as well. I can't imagine going through all that!



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Postby silverseven » 17 May 2014 00:48

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by whitenviro</i>

Unfortunately, I think the spam is from a Bot machine so there is no-one listening at the other end. It just endlessly churns out semi-random messages to any URL it finds. There's a good chance someone on here that has caught a bug and their computer is being used as the Bot without their knowledge. That would explain how they are getting past the sign-in page. It's a brave new world out there!
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Good explanation, I think its a good mix of spam bot with the occasional human maybe mixed in for good measure. The virus theory is also possible .....though spam has existed on this site pretty much from the beginning.
I think the real reason is that the site is just not as secure as it could be because it's in major need of a revamp. Maybe one day!

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Postby Hasbeen » 17 May 2014 01:33

Hay Ron, with all this extra work you are having to do, I reckon we should double your salary.

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Postby john 215 » 17 May 2014 06:48

Hi,

Up till today they have tended to leave us alone at weekend, but ten spammers today deleted [:(!] ..... so far !!

Sorry apart from being a total pain in the ar5e what is the point of ?????

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Another 12 !!

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Postby tr8 » 17 May 2014 12:23

Perhaps it would be possible to stop new memberships for a couple of days. Would that stop the spam?
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Postby john 215 » 17 May 2014 12:36

Hi,

Removed 78 spam threads ....... so far today !!!

Correction over a 100 [V] s0d this off to pub [8D]

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Postby John Wood » 17 May 2014 16:58

Stop new members now.
Tighten up the registration process. Ie they have to contact a MOD to join the site.

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Postby stevie_a » 17 May 2014 17:02

<font color="teal"><b>I must admit that is how i do it on my site.

you still get the odd one or two. </b></font id="teal">

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Postby Workshop Help » 17 May 2014 17:12

Yes, I agree. Never have I seen them so pervasive.

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Postby RadioGuy » 17 May 2014 17:38

Today was indeed a hairy one....They are getting better at the subject lines too...

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Postby sydney.wedgehead » 17 May 2014 18:10

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by John Wood</i>

Stop new members now.
Tighten up the registration process. Ie they have to contact a MOD to join the site.

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I agree with John's idea. It will be less work for the Mods to vet new membership requests than to delete the volume of spam currently being received.

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Postby john 215 » 17 May 2014 23:10

Hi,

Just got in from night out another 30 plus deleted [:(!][:(!][:(!]

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Postby silverseven » 18 May 2014 01:29

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Hasbeen</i>

Hay Ron, with all this extra work you are having to do, I reckon we should double your salary.

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yeah I guess I`ll have to split the profit with John , and maybe Clay !

about 200 accounts now evaporated .....

I`m also thinking we should lock down for a bit.


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