Time to get rid of filthy spam

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:33 pm

Now 'Pennymachines' has taken off, is it time for all users to be registered before they can create new topics?

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:48 pm

Modifications have now been made to the Forum to prevent Spammers.

It's already blocked 3 Spam attempts in the last 24 hours. They're tenacious pests, so I doubt we've seen the last of them, but for the present it should deter most. And if anything does get through, we have several active moderators who delete Spam on sight.

It would be a shame to abandon the open forums for the reasons given above. The reluctance to use one's email address to join an online board is understandable and ironically also a consequence of Spammers and unscrupulous boards that sell data to them.

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:08 pm

Wow clever stuff. Now I must get back to my Sinclair ZX80!

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:23 pm

The spammers seemed to have found a way around the changes again.

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:21 pm

.... are you sure they're not more technical questions from the far east?

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:44 pm

Definitely not in relation to slot machines!!!!!!

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:59 pm

Of the pornographic type. You must have sorted it /deleted it yesterday?

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:59 pm

Cheeky wrote:Of the pornographic type. You must have sorted it /deleted it yesterday?

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:00 pm

Very good - For other readers, everytime you place 'that' word in the freetext it changes it to the word 'SPAM'. Very, very clever!!!!

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:10 am

I deleted it after answering Cheeky. Interestingly (if it was one of those automated trawling bots) it firstly joined as a member. See "oftendfkimberli" and then posted in almost every category and each post had the obligatory 100 or so links.
Perhaps Site Admin should delete its membership as I suppose it now has direct access, for what good that would do, it joined up easily enough.

Interesting that it's raised so much curiosity from everybody. I'd have thought our already failing eyesight would have perished completely if anyone were to attempt anything suggested in its content.

So no it really wasn't further technical chatter from our Bombay branch of Oliver Whales.

Badpenny

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:15 am

....... in fact Mr Site Admin, I've just had another gander at the membership and I can see at least another two in there you might like to banish.

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