Spam / new forum
Spam / new forum
Afternoon all,
Just a quick note to apologise for the increase in spam on here lately - and for anyone who's been getting the screen telling them they're blocked for spam - innocent victims of the crossfire I'm currently involved in. Spambots seem to have dialled up across the whole internet - a lot of our clients at work are getting them coming through contact and customer registration forms too.
I've put some measures into place at registration which will hopefully stop them (for about five minutes, probably...) - and between seasons this year, I'm going to be moving Uncovered to a completely new forum platform which will hopefully have some more up to date spam protections available to it. Going to take a while to decide which one, but it won't be phpBB (not that it's their fault we're in this mess - I just think there are better ones out there now)
Just a quick note to apologise for the increase in spam on here lately - and for anyone who's been getting the screen telling them they're blocked for spam - innocent victims of the crossfire I'm currently involved in. Spambots seem to have dialled up across the whole internet - a lot of our clients at work are getting them coming through contact and customer registration forms too.
I've put some measures into place at registration which will hopefully stop them (for about five minutes, probably...) - and between seasons this year, I'm going to be moving Uncovered to a completely new forum platform which will hopefully have some more up to date spam protections available to it. Going to take a while to decide which one, but it won't be phpBB (not that it's their fault we're in this mess - I just think there are better ones out there now)
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Re: Spam / new forum
Good news Mikky that you're on top of things.
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I was able to log in again after a while in cyber limbo... I so like Spam on occasions though...fried
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I was able to log in again after a while in cyber limbo... I do like Spam on occasions though...fried
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I see they're back. Ho hum. I'll get the banhammer out later and try and tidy things up a bit.
While I'm here, can I please ask people NOT to reply to spam topics? I know you think you're being funny, but what you're actually doing is making the job of removing the users take longer. If I can just ban the uses and delete the posts automatically, the job is done - but when the user and their post is deleted, if someone else has replied to it then those posts - potentially quoting the original spam - get left behind and I have to manually tidy those up too.
Just report them and then go back to whatever you were doing beforehand, thanks.
While I'm here, can I please ask people NOT to reply to spam topics? I know you think you're being funny, but what you're actually doing is making the job of removing the users take longer. If I can just ban the uses and delete the posts automatically, the job is done - but when the user and their post is deleted, if someone else has replied to it then those posts - potentially quoting the original spam - get left behind and I have to manually tidy those up too.
Just report them and then go back to whatever you were doing beforehand, thanks.
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Sorry, didn't realise it caused you problems. I'll resist in future!
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Ditto.don'tbuythesun wrote:Sorry, didn't realise it caused you problems. I'll resist in future!
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FAO DarloPete.
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Yeah, me too...Sorrydon'tbuythesun wrote:Sorry, didn't realise it caused you problems. I'll resist in future!
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Cleaned a bit up this morning mikky in case you were a bit confused with the post referencing Chinese investors
- HarrytheQuaker
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Re: Spam / new forum
more spam I see this morning
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#phpbbout
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Officially bored now.