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News - Registration disabled
« on: Mar 22, 2012, 01:54:57 PM »
Due to the number of attempted registrations a day from Russia, China, and other countries that have only one purpose and that is to spam, I have temporarily disabled new member registration.  If you know of someone that wants to join us, then let me know.

Once we have had registrations disabled for a while, I'll open it back up again and see what happens.
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« Reply #1 on: Mar 22, 2012, 03:08:13 PM »
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My friends here are some of the kindest on earth :kissies:

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« Reply #2 on: Mar 22, 2012, 04:22:16 PM »
I was deleting 40 to 60 a day that got sorta caught in our spam filter, but I still had to delete them.
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 22, 2012, 04:28:07 PM »
Never ending. Glad your on top of things, for the most part don't usually have to see/read spam.

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« Reply #4 on: Mar 22, 2012, 04:39:41 PM »
Good work, Jim. I hope this makes it easier on you.
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« Reply #5 on: Mar 23, 2012, 10:12:11 AM »
I have several things working to keep spam off the board.  Limits on posting of links as well as a real-time check that is run through stopforumspam.com.  That was catching the majority of them but it does that after they register.  Anyway I will open it back up soon.  Meantime if you know someone that wants to join us, be sure and let me know and I can register them manually.
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Re: News - Registration disabled
« Reply #6 on: Mar 30, 2012, 01:57:37 PM »
As of today I have reopened registration.  If the spammers return, I will close it again.
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« Reply #7 on: Apr 08, 2012, 07:43:12 PM »
Registration is disabled again.  I just deleted 6 pages that the stop forum spam caught.  That is completely ridiculous.
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« Reply #8 on: Apr 08, 2012, 07:55:46 PM »
I am sorry, Jim. It is pretty ridiculous.
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« Reply #9 on: Apr 08, 2012, 08:10:13 PM »
I am sorry, Jim. It is pretty ridiculous.
i hate that you have to do that.
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« Reply #10 on: Apr 09, 2012, 08:27:06 AM »
Would be nice if someone could come up with a way to send them into a black hole.

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« Reply #11 on: Apr 09, 2012, 11:02:11 AM »
Yep, or just ban the IPs that are assigned to those countries.  I've already denied lots of them access through the hosting control panel but they just keep coming.
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« Reply #12 on: Apr 25, 2012, 08:57:41 PM »
Opened registration back up to see if they have got tired of the disabled registration message.  We'll see.
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« Reply #13 on: Apr 29, 2012, 08:20:34 PM »
Typical coming from China and Russia.

Other counties as well, even US of A.

If haven't already ban email address *@mail.ru

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« Reply #14 on: Apr 29, 2012, 08:31:48 PM »
Actually most of the spammers we have been getting lately have had gmail addresses.  I deleted 3 pages this morning and not one of them was from mail.ru.  I think they figured that one out and just got gmail addresses.
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« Reply #15 on: Apr 29, 2012, 08:44:38 PM »
gmail would be hard to block.

Accept having tons of spammernames @ gmail.com

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« Reply #16 on: Apr 30, 2012, 06:10:26 AM »
I use a small mod that checks the username, IP and email address through Stop Forum Spam and it catches most of them.  Just leaves an error in the log instead of an account that needs to be deleted.  Every now and then one will get through but it is pretty obvious they are spammers so they get deleted before they have an opportunity to validate.
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« Reply #17 on: Apr 30, 2012, 07:09:52 AM »
Keep up the good work, Jim Baby.
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« Reply #18 on: Apr 30, 2012, 08:57:32 AM »
Yes, thank you, Jim.
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« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2012, 11:07:54 PM »
jim, you are doing a tough job, i am thankful you are on top of it.
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« Reply #20 on: Oct 22, 2012, 03:41:01 PM »
I have disabled registration again.  I had to remove 10 pages of spammers today and some were duplicates.  If a current member knows of someone that wants to register, you will need to let Dianna or me know.  I hate to do this but I'm tired of the new member registrations all being spammers.
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« Reply #21 on: Oct 22, 2012, 04:12:14 PM »
I understand, Jim.
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« Reply #22 on: Oct 23, 2012, 07:43:22 AM »
Still like to for a black hole to suck them in.

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« Reply #23 on: Nov 04, 2012, 08:37:25 PM »
Still like to for a black hole to suck them in.
yep.  i agree.  spammers and hackers.
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« Reply #24 on: Apr 02, 2013, 02:21:27 PM »
I've changed a few things on the server side to see if I can slow down the traffic from some of the heavy spammer countries.  If that works, then I will open registration again in the hopes that we will get some new folks that might want to join us.  I will watch it a few days to see if the changes I made have any affect before opening it back up.
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