Today, the Forum suffered from multiple attacks by spammers advertising their abnoxious and irrelevant material. Fortunately, our Mod Knights, in particular Sir Moggy C were up to the challenge and superior to the situation and the invaders were repelled. It is probable that most Forumites were unaware of the attacks, so swift was the retribution as they occurred during the afternoon and defeat was swiftly administered.
My question would be, is there a mechanism to supervise the first posts of new members to ensure that this loophole is not circumnavigated?
By: BlueRobin - 27th August 2007 at 20:25
For a mere $30-odd you could route your email through Spam Bot and have them filter it for you.
The best solution rather depends who provides your e-mail service.
By: Peter - 27th August 2007 at 18:58
un register
never…. ever….. EVER…. hit the unregister or remove me from email links on spam messages. This basically opens up the flood gates and lets you recieve dozens more. It also confirms your email address is an active on as well!. Best thing to do is to have a secondary email account that you can use for signing up on frums etc etc and have all the junk mail go there.
By: Drem - 27th August 2007 at 18:20
Spam
Out of interest, can anybody out there give me ideas on how to get rid of the spam I am receiving on my computer (sometimes up to 20 e-mails a day),?.
Have tried the usual scrolling down to where you can unregister but they still keep coming back.
Any bugs I can send them etc would be greatly appreciated.
By: Ren Frew - 23rd August 2007 at 01:35
If anyone has any issues with the mods or indeed the webmaster himself then please feel free to contact him direct
Any thread drift posts will be deleted
Dean 🙂
Quite right too, some people take this stuff far too seriously…:eek:
By: Deano - 22nd August 2007 at 22:50
If anyone has any issues with the mods or indeed the webmaster himself then please feel free to contact him direct
Any thread drift posts will be deleted
Dean 🙂
By: BlueRobin - 22nd August 2007 at 19:16
Probably, anyway this is about spam innit?
There have been been far fewer spam attacks this year since the board was upgraded and processes were put into place to deter the automatic registration robots.
By: Gollevainen - 22nd August 2007 at 19:11
Is it too rude to revial the name of that member in question? (or even ask it:o )
By: sealordlawrence - 22nd August 2007 at 18:56
“And yes, the Webmaster does manually approve new accounts.”
Including reactivating the accounts of those guilty of a personal attack which was discriminatory, inflammatory and could easily have been construed as threatening behaviour.
Other people have been banned for much less.
Bitter? Moi?
Regards,
kev35
+1 on that.
By: kev35 - 20th August 2007 at 20:10
“And yes, the Webmaster does manually approve new accounts.”
Including reactivating the accounts of those guilty of a personal attack which was discriminatory, inflammatory and could easily have been construed as threatening behaviour.
Other people have been banned for much less.
Bitter? Moi?
Regards,
kev35
By: Grey Area - 20th August 2007 at 19:53
Today, the Forum suffered from multiple attacks by spammers….
Indeed so. Someone was even trying to get free advertising for a commercially-organised spotting trip….. 😎
If you use the “Report Post” option (the little red warning triangle icon at the top right of every posting) all of the moderators for the forum in question will automatically receive an alert email.
And yes, the Webmaster does manually approve new accounts.
By: SOC - 20th August 2007 at 19:42
I think newly registered users have to have some sort of “serious” e-mail account, and their accounts have to be activated by the Webmaster. I think that’s how it works now, I could be wrong.
At any rate, if any of you do notice someone being an irritant and trying to sell you handbags or other crap, let the moderators of that forum know (i.e. telling me about something on Commercial Aviation is not really going to help you as I am not a Moderator on that particular forum, although I will forward any such issues to the people who can fix them) and they’ll electronically assassinate the spammer and blow up his or her posts.
By: Gollevainen - 20th August 2007 at 19:41
well I “work” as a mod/semi-adm. in Sinodefenceforum, wich uses the same vBulletin board chasis, and we have the same proplem constantly present…You just cannot avoid them. But I know that some boards, have that post aproval function
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