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Re: News - Registration disabled
« Reply #25 on: Apr 03, 2013, 09:46:50 AM »
OK, not sure if it has had the affect I wanted but I have opened registration back up as of this morning. 
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« Reply #26 on: Apr 05, 2013, 11:00:15 AM »
I have currently blocked IPs from China and Russian Federation.  This seems to have helped.  So far all new registrations have been spammers that my filter has caught so registration will remain open for now.
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« Reply #27 on: Apr 05, 2013, 04:56:01 PM »
Cool!
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« Reply #28 on: Apr 28, 2013, 10:49:02 PM »
i like that idea.  i have a couple of folks i'd like to recommend check the site out. we'll see.
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Re: News - Registration disabled
« Reply #29 on: Aug 06, 2013, 09:30:48 AM »
Unfortunately I have had to close registrations again.  Why spammers from China want to register on our forum I have no idea.  If you know of someone that would like to register, please provide the following to me and I will register them:

Display name (what they want to be called by us)
Email address

Sorry for the inconvenience.
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« Reply #30 on: Aug 06, 2013, 04:19:49 PM »
Cool, Jim. I am sorry dweeps are lurking and making things difficult.
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« Reply #31 on: Aug 06, 2013, 04:38:57 PM »
I deleted 12 spammers this morning.  Some were even using proxies because they got by the disallow on the server side.  All were from foreign countries and will not post because they are probably spammers.  Some of the email addresses looked like porn spammers because of some of the phrases in the email.  Up until this morning I was deleting 3 pages a day of attempted registrations.  This morning there was 7 pages with approximately 50 entries on each page. 

So registrations will remain closed until further notice.  I would be happy to re-open it if we got a few legitimate registrations but it seems it has been ages since we have had anyone new come along.
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« Reply #32 on: Aug 06, 2013, 06:31:58 PM »
I fully understand. I appreciate the work you do to keep this a  nice peaceful spam-free place to be. And if closing registrations save you work, I'm all for it.
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« Reply #33 on: Aug 08, 2013, 06:12:12 PM »
Closing registrations may/might be an inconvenience to some, not allowing just anyone to register, you can at least filter the good and bad, usually spammers won't email you for an account, then again...

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« Reply #34 on: Aug 09, 2013, 10:26:09 AM »
Yep.  I already have registrations set where they have to be verified.  I just got tired of deleting pages and pages of spammer registration attempts.

When someone tries to register now, it checks their IP, username, and email address against the Stop Forum Spam database.  If they are in that list, it denies the registration and puts an entry into my error log.  That's where I am seeing the pages and pages of attempts.  Every now and then one or two gets through and those are the ones that I set to validate the email and most times they never do.  Some do and then don't post and intro within 7 days.  When that happens they get deleted as the policy states.

It's a shame that we have to go to these lengths because of the spammers.
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« Reply #35 on: Jul 14, 2014, 02:25:58 PM »
Opened up registrations again.  We'll see how long it takes the spammers to find us.
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« Reply #36 on: Jul 23, 2014, 10:32:23 AM »
Have had registration opened now for a week and 2 days and so far every registration has been a spammer caught by the mod I have installed to do just that.  I've deleted 8 pages total with 50 on each page.
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« Reply #37 on: Jul 23, 2014, 11:50:11 AM »
good grief.  What's going on?

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« Reply #38 on: Jul 23, 2014, 11:57:40 AM »
Dreadful. I am bummed by all of the commercials in life in general.
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« Reply #39 on: Jul 23, 2014, 01:53:25 PM »
Well that didn't last long.
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Re: News - Registration disabled
« Reply #40 on: Jul 24, 2014, 04:54:01 PM »
Well that didn't last long.

What didn't last long?  :ScratchHead:  Deleted 2 pages today!
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« Reply #41 on: Jul 24, 2014, 06:24:01 PM »
Thought you closed it again.. lol
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« Reply #42 on: Jul 25, 2014, 11:00:16 AM »
Nope.  As long as the mod catches them, it's an easy matter to delete the pages.  If they start slipping through then it gets a bit more frustrating.  I'll leave it open for a bit to see if maybe we finally do get some new members.

I'll close it again if we get so many guests that it slows the system down.  10 online right now and almost all are from China and Russia. 
« Last Edit: Jul 25, 2014, 11:06:59 AM by Jim »
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« Reply #43 on: Aug 10, 2014, 08:34:37 PM »
i have lots of people interested, but not any interested enough to register.  i am going to try to get scott's niece, she swears her house is haunted...
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« Reply #44 on: Aug 11, 2014, 10:58:23 AM »
It's still open.  The mod is still doing it's job and catching the spammers.  Looks like they would get tired and just go away!
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« Reply #45 on: Aug 13, 2014, 10:03:52 AM »
Sounds like its a decent MOD, hope it works out.

 

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