Re: Spammer Posts

CoffeeBot · Post by **CoffeeBot** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:43 pm

Is there something that can be done about the random spammers that are posting obnoxious, sometimes offensive messages? They're quite obviously not anyone interested in the game, so why do we tolerate it?

Post by **www2** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:52 pm

@CoffeeBot
<LOL_MODE>
I hef no 15 inbox only 5
</LOL_MODE>
meby can we use a anti robot img for login...
edit: And dis also for gust topic and replay...

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:02 pm

anti-bot rules arn't perfect some still gets through

so you still have to delete it.

Enjoy the Choice

CubOfJudahsLion · Post by **CubOfJudahsLion** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:12 am

The process of reviewing my e-mail has become reversed over the years. Now I SELECT ALL of my emails and then hand-pick the few important ones for DE-SELECTION before deleting. Filters notwithstanding.

Post by **mkruer** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:39 am

Is this a general question about e-mail or the forums in particular?

CoffeeBot · Post by **CoffeeBot** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:50 am

@mkruer: Forums. Not much we can do about our inboxes

@Cub: Sadly, I do the same.

Post by **mkruer** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:27 pm

where is this "spam" that you talk about. at the moment you have to log in to post. so if there is an account that is a known spammer, let me know. I will ban them for a few days till they get the hint or delete the account if the spam continues.

Post by **www2** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:09 pm

@mkruer
And meby a IP block for the spamer...

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:53 am

I kinda like 'em. They're so hilariously terrible, I just can't imagine who thinks these things would actually sell any products.

CoffeeBot · Post by **CoffeeBot** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:29 pm

mkruer wrote:where is this "spam" that you talk about. at the moment you have to log in to post. so if there is an account that is a known spammer, let me know. I will ban them for a few days till they get the hint or delete the account if the spam continues.

It looks like a mod has been deleting them after a bit. There's been stuff for pr0n, gay-pr0n, casinos, adult dating. Each one has been made with a different username.

@Ryder: They're already hilariously terrible in my inbox.

No, wait. Not hilarious. Just terrible.

But I do agree about the whole "who the hell buys this crap" except that I know of one, and he's an ex-client of mine...a firm believer in the "if it's on the Internet, it MUST be true" theory.

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:22 pm

Ah, see, I think that's the difference, I don't get email spam in any meaningful quantity. Hence, I'm not bored of its awfulness already.

CoffeeBot · Post by **CoffeeBot** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:40 pm

Yeah, I had some dork "steal" my "identity" and used it to post on several hentai/porn boards, so my old email address gets about 20 emails a day, plus my required ISP account.

Wisq · Post by **Wisq** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:33 pm

Ugh, e-mail. All it takes is submitting your address to one less-reputable-than-you-thought company or site, and you've got spam on that address for eternity.

I'm thankful I run my own e-mail server... setting the protocol adherence requirement extremely high weeds much of it out. And I use a different address for every sign-up or mailing list. It paid off big-time the other day when I suddenly started getting a dozen spams a day on an e-mail I hadn't used for a year or so. (I think they deliberately held off selling their lists to spammers so people wouldn't realise it was them.) I just delete the e-mail alias, and poof, nothing.

Post by **klauss** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:59 pm

One thing I'm working on is enforcing S/MIME on all incoming messages, and they have to come from known addresses, or they're sent to a special folder from where they get deleted automatically. That's for mail. Perhaps something similar can be done with the forums, with HTTPS, but it's quite a lot of work, and perhaps some people won't be able to setup their certificates right. Anyway, such a procedure would most certainly rule out bots (I don't know any bot that follows such a reigstering procedure where you get handed out a certificate to be used against the forum). But... that's a little too much work, ain't it?

CubOfJudahsLion · Post by **CubOfJudahsLion** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:21 pm

What was the name of that software that had you counting things in an image to ensure you're not a mass mailer? It ran an SMTP server on your machine. Sadly, it's useless with most webmail providers.

To refer to the original thread topic: can the current board software be made to ask subscribers to copy a word from a noisy image?

Post by **mkruer** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:58 am

Just as an reinforcement to the original message. Let me know if you see additional spam and I will remove then and any delete person(s) if necessary.

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