New users
Due to all the porn and other spam we have been getting I have chosen to moderate all new members.
To become a registered member and be able to post you must now PM me on the forums. <<Notice>> Spamming the forums with crap will result in an IP ban first offence after I allow you to become a member. <<<also a global announcment at the top of every page in the forums no excuses>>> |
I think, this is worth me coming out of my quiet solitude to say.
Just wow, porn being spammed on the site? :O I am appalled. |
Not like this doesn't happen on other forums. Seems to be only happening to popular forum packages. Doesn't happen to phpbb3 yet.
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It's only Beta5. Give them time.
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Other forums use other methods for blocking spam, including paying for fancy software. I think Matt did the best thing; If anyone's really interested in becoming part of these forums - they only need put in a little extra effort by PM him. The only problem I see, if he gets swamped in PMs, which in that case, he can spread it out to all the Mods.
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over 350 new accounts since I started it, less then 25 have PM'd me.
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Its SOE!!!!!!!!!!
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Now that's as clear as mud :) GeorgeS |
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Don't feel picked on Matt.
they are even attacking my megar board with porn spam. I think theres some kinda new php bot invented to auto spam people nowdays. |
i have a very small forum and most of the people there are people i have known for a long time but i also see three members that i dont know, have never posted, and come from the same place - some online drugs or something. fortunately i havent had any porn posted yet. at another site i had crap posts - thinks like "cvksduf" and "this site sucks". then it was hacked twice with the second time so severe i never put it back up again. also when i shutdown the forum for the crap that was there i got admin mail with all sorts of trash including a truckload of virus. some people.
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if it makes you feel any better, i just updated my REJECT list for sendmail, and it now contains 18884 class C CIDR blocks. that means almost 30% of the internet is REJECTED by my mail server.... AND i still get spam each day.
the only thing i can think of, is that someone has done a fantastic job of infecting a ton of machines and is running one helluva bot-net. == sfisque |
they now attacked that WIKI......grumble , grumble somabitches....grumble, grumble.
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