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SPAM attack

Post by Richard Moss » Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:04 am

Sorry about the spam attacks earlier, and thanks to the chaps who brought it to my attention.

In the short term I have reset registrations to require manual activation by admins - labour intensive but better than the alternative. This may lead to a few accidental bans for genuine users but we'll get the system back to auto ASAP.
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by MG Mal » Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:25 am

Nice one Richard,

We had that much I thought I was in the middle of a "Monty Python Sketch". LOL

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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard Moss » Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:46 am

There seems to be a lot of it about today - autoshite is swamped, too
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard C » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:40 am

Ahh that explains the emails,
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard Moss » Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:13 pm

James has changed the signup procedure and hopefully we won't get either emails or spam now.........
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by threelitre » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:16 pm

If you are a politician you'd call it a partial success ;)

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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard C » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:23 pm

yeah we had more, but now gone (i hope)
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by MikeMedford » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:27 pm

There's about 12 left if you check end of members list.

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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard C » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:43 pm

MikeMedford wrote:There's about 12 left if you check end of members list.
Thanks Mike, now sorted
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by BennyVitesse » Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:58 pm

yeah Ive been banned from my own forum!
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard Moss » Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:59 pm

BennyVitesse wrote:yeah Ive been banned from my own forum!
Blame your admins! :)
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by BennyVitesse » Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:03 pm

Yeah Rhyds is looking into it now.
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by Richard Moss » Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:25 pm

Probably been caught in a blanket ban on certain types of email address (eg. gmail, cmail, ymail etc). They should be able to add an exception for you.
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by BennyVitesse » Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:53 pm

Yeah he has fixed it. Currently reviewing our systems, trying to work out questions that humans can answer and not Chinese PCs.
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Re: SPAM attack

Post by TDHFastback » Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:21 pm

I feel sorry for for that chap who makes his living selling tinned cold meat online, I bet no one ever replies to his e mails.

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