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| Alexander |
 Apr 24 2009, 05:28 PM
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QUOTE(Blackdemon @ Apr 24 2009, 04:47 PM)  QUOTE(Alexander @ Apr 24 2009, 06:55 AM) As an update to all, Rane had a good idea to prevent this from happening in the future. We'll take some time to look at it to see if it's done what we want it to do. Should anyone receive another such spam pm after today, please let us know and we'll get back to the drawing board.  I received 2 messages, one on apr 20 and one yesterday. But isn't disabling registration a bit extreme for 2 spammers (probably one spammer under 2 names) in more than a year ? Who really clicked on the link sent by a total stranger without finding this message suspicious ? message title "important" body "click the link". The average user receive about 750 similar emails each day. Not speaking of the spam we receive on our cellphones. We all know this problem. Don't you think just ignore them, never answer and delete the message as soon as reported is more efficient than any drastic and annoying measure ? hehe, no worries, we hope to have solved this without either having to manually accept every new member, or disallowing new member influx altogether. That was indeed a joke from Rane a bit earlier  -------------------- All that is needed for evil to triumph, is that good men stand idle.
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| jack cloudy |
Apr 24 2009, 10:38 PM
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I figured this might be a good place to bring it up. We've got a new member called Brickerza. I've got no problem with new people joining up, but all of his posts that I've come across so far are nothing but a string of a's. Like aaaaaaaaa or something like that.
This makes me suspect he's actually a spambot of some sort. Perhaps an attempt to get around the rule that prohibits people from making new threads if they don't have a certain number of posts? -------------------- Fabulous hairneedle attack! I'm gonna be bald before I hit twenty.
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| Kiln |
Apr 24 2009, 11:32 PM
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QUOTE(jack cloudy @ Apr 24 2009, 09:38 PM) I figured this might be a good place to bring it up. We've got a new member called Brickerza. I've got no problem with new people joining up, but all of his posts that I've come across so far are nothing but a string of a's. Like aaaaaaaaa or something like that. This makes me suspect he's actually a spambot of some sort. Perhaps an attempt to get around the rule that prohibits people from making new threads if they don't have a certain number of posts? I was just coming to mention this...  Here's hoping for a quick delete. This post has been edited by Kiln: Apr 24 2009, 11:37 PM -------------------- He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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| Alexander |
Apr 25 2009, 09:10 AM
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It's gone.
-------------------- All that is needed for evil to triumph, is that good men stand idle.
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| Zalphon |
Mar 18 2010, 03:24 AM
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Thank you for the warning.
-------------------- "You have the same twenty-four hours as me; don't be mad just because you don't use yours like I do." -Tupac Shakur
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