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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:25 am    Post subject: Eradicating porn Reply with quote

For a while now, I've been getting 10-20 spam bot sign-ups per day. I fought them off daily for a few weeks, but it became futile.

This caused many REAL user signups to get lost in the shuffle. Sorry to those whom were affected.

I just implemented a new mod to the BB that should prevent bots from signing up as frequently. A side-effect is that I found it easier to implement by returning to the old default look and feel.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem Doc. Thanks for letting us know any how.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes these things are a pest. I closed our forums because I was tired of dealing with them. Hope your new mob helps.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Calendyr wrote:
Yes these things are a pest. I closed our forums because I was tired of dealing with them. Hope your new mob helps.


Working like a charm so far. Blocked 5 today.

Notice the user count dropped from about 2.3K to what it is now.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

User 'TAMIFLUdoc' has failed to answer the Textual Confirmation question correctly. It might be a spambot, therefore the registration is rejected.

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User: TAMIFLUdoc
E-mail domain: @bonbon.net
Website: -----
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doctor

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Data provided by the server:

REMOTE_ADDR=81.95.146.126
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95) Opera 6.01 [en]
ENCODING=iso-8859-1
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a bot. That user posted on an other forum I visit.

Nuke it Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Calendyr wrote:
That's a bot. That user posted on an other forum I visit.

Nuke it Wink


Don't need to nuke. This BB mod prevents them from even registering.

It has successfully blocked all 29 a-holes since I deployed it.
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