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Post by Jeff Ledger on Dec 28, 2007 21:06:24 GMT -5
Several have noticed that it takes a while for some to obtain "Access Approval' to these forums. I am into the Admin panel about every other day, but because of a higher than usual amount of spamming that has happened here in the last few months, some account requests have been subjected to delays. Here's why.
A sign up that looks like this
Jeffrey Adams jeffadams@whatevermail.com
Is more likely to be granted quicker access than one that looks like this:
Jeffrey Adams sa2123j@gmail.com
In the second example, the email seems to be completely unrelated to the sign-in name, and secondly is hosted at a free email service. Don't get me wrong, I also like gmail, but accounts which come across my system like this will be subjected to delays in registration.
Spammers have a habit of hitting many forums at once, looking for quick register and go situations. A delay in registration seems to work reasonably well for weeding them out.
If you have an account that has been subjected to delays because of this policy, take a moment to drop me a line and include the SYS for soft reset of the C64. Heh... -Jeff-
j+chr$(69)+ffl+chr$(69)+dger@gmail.com
The Admin
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Post by The Dude on Dec 31, 2007 22:56:59 GMT -5
Posting this may not be the best thing to do Jeff (Spammers might start doing this)
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Post by Jeff Ledger on Jan 2, 2008 8:43:11 GMT -5
Nah, Not worried.. Spammers are hit and run graffiti artists..
This involves more work than the average spammer is prepared to do, as expected 99.9% of them will simply move quickly to the next target.
Petscii Forums is one of the last places where the signal-to-noise ratio is kept very tightly tuned. One of the reasons that regulars appreciate this place.
Jeff
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Post by David Murray on Jan 2, 2008 10:31:45 GMT -5
I agree. I wasn't even aware the forums were getting spammed. That goes to show how well the noise level is controlled.
Unfortunately, Usenet is becoming unusable. I only still use two groups, one of them is comp.sys.cbm. It is full of MI5 spam every day, and the other one I use is rec.arts.drwho and it is full of random sentence generation, which doesn't even make sense to me as they aren't even advertising anything.
For public forums, I think the best control is a combination of moderators and having the users have ability to click "spam" on things that are spam.
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Post by The Dude on Feb 17, 2008 1:44:31 GMT -5
Spam is becoming a MAJOR PROBLEM all over the net,its kinda sad....
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Post by thurstan on Feb 18, 2008 5:03:46 GMT -5
its been a major problem for years
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Post by din100 on Feb 18, 2008 18:30:17 GMT -5
why not simply use CAPTCHA, I had this spamming problem in my blog ever since I started using CAPTCHA it's kind a fixed
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Post by MadModder on Apr 12, 2008 19:09:16 GMT -5
Captcha is very easy to crack. Every other spambot gets past it like it wasn't even there. Instead, include a question which only a human can answer to. Of course this doesn't stop human spammers. But I haven't had any spam at all in my forums since i included such a question at registration.  |
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Post by Jeff Ledger on Apr 12, 2008 22:09:43 GMT -5
My current system is doing a decent job. The other day I accidentally approved an obvious spam name, and sure enough within an hour he had posted to general. The current 3day waiting period really sorts them out. I've received a few emails with the SYS call from those who wanted/and got faster approval.
Jeff
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Post by jhart711 on May 4, 2008 23:33:57 GMT -5
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Post by youki on May 15, 2008 3:13:36 GMT -5
On my forums, i had lot of spams.
I noticed that most of spammers had a email in China or Russia.
Since i have banned all *.cn and *.ru emails , i don't have spam any more. Even if i have "auto approval" enabled.
I have to say, my forums is in French , so the chance of a real .cn or .ru is interrested by it , is very low. so it is way i banned all the range. for an english spoken forum this method is may be too radical...
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Post by The Dude on Apr 22, 2009 18:30:00 GMT -5
w0w what a usefull site!! Merci Beaucoup |
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Post by deckardelectric on May 5, 2009 21:18:54 GMT -5
Personally I like the 'slow approval'. In addition to the spam issue it really make sure you want to be here. Living in a time where I can get just about any information I want (or don't want) at the drop of a hat, I feel there is value in requiring some patience. (I suppose that's part of what draws me back to the 8-bit world.)
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Post by raymond61 on May 6, 2009 21:32:23 GMT -5
Spam is just bots real people do not look at it! All you need is a patch code were you can ask something like "What color is a apple" a bot will not know to say red. You can make up any thing like that to ask. I have a phpBB board and got tons of spam till I put something like that in it.
-Raymond Day
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Post by gsteemso on May 13, 2009 4:54:48 GMT -5
Spam is just bots real people do not look at it! All you need is a patch code were you can ask something like "What color is a apple" a bot will not know to say red. You can make up any thing like that to ask. I have a phpBB board and got tons of spam till I put something like that in it. This seems good in principle, but what about the existence of green, yellow and multicoloured apples? I would have answered "green" to that question, thereby falsely marking myself as a spambot. I like the idea but you need a better question — "What colour is the sky on Mars?" would work nicely if you insist on "red" as an answer. |
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