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« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2006 09:26 pm CST »
Are you sure it was this one?  I delete nearly a dozen of them per day and people seem to post in all of them for some reason.
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« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2006 09:38 pm CST »
lol, that's prolly it.
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« Reply #17 on: December 1, 2006 12:24 am CST »
Congratulations part, your first catch of the day is in the Door Stop 8)
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« Reply #18 on: December 1, 2006 02:01 am CST »
LOL, seems to be working.  Can't wait to see if they get past it.
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« Reply #19 on: December 1, 2006 02:08 am CST »
Don't celebrate just yet.  There's more than one spammer using more than one particular program out there.  We'll probably catch some but not all.

This one isn't the annoying prick from latin america that we've all come to know and love.
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« Reply #20 on: December 1, 2006 12:14 pm CST »
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Don't celebrate just yet.  There's more than one spammer using more than one particular program out there.  We'll probably catch some but not all.

This one isn't the annoying prick from latin america that we've all come to know and love.


NICE!
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« Reply #21 on: December 4, 2006 11:55 am CST »
This is not a one day process, sin.  I'm still collecting information.
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« Reply #22 on: December 4, 2006 04:18 pm CST »
I've put my old freemail blocker back in place to prevent registrations.  I removed it originally to promote new users, but I've modified the blocker more for spam protection than ban evasion protection purposes.

I've also made the post and thread counts for the spam catch subforum permanent.
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As a point of history:  Our last server clear was on September 27, 2004.  That is 4963 days ago (13.6 years) as of today.

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« Reply #23 on: December 5, 2006 05:22 pm CST »
No new spam since I put the last two changes in effect (so far).  Looks like we might have a fairly effective cocktail that'll stop a lot of the spam before it even happens.

Don't think this means we'll never see any again, however.
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« Reply #24 on: December 5, 2006 09:00 pm CST »
BUI V!AGRA CI@LI$ V@lium M@R!JUAN@
Check out uor on_line st0r3 for m0r detaiilz
http://BuyOurShat.com/scam
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« Reply #25 on: December 6, 2006 12:22 am CST »
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I've also made the post and thread counts for the spam catch subforum permanent.
What does this do to stop spam?
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« Reply #26 on: December 6, 2006 01:19 am CST »
Bots can choose a lot of things to decide where to post:
- Forum with highest post count
- Forum with most recent post
- Highest listed forum
- Forum ID 1 (our assistance forum, oddly enough)

Now, by having one forum that hits all of these things, that makes it all the more attractive to a bot.
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As a point of history:  Our last server clear was on September 27, 2004.  That is 4963 days ago (13.6 years) as of today.

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« Reply #27 on: December 6, 2006 05:10 am CST »
Indeed, as it does appear to be working very well. Good job! :cheers:
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« Reply #28 on: December 7, 2006 12:56 pm CST »
Oh, I forgot to mention that I enabled guest posting in the spam forum as well.  Many bots won't even bother to register if guest posting is enabled, which means that the've got even more reason to post there instead of here.
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As a point of history:  Our last server clear was on September 27, 2004.  That is 4963 days ago (13.6 years) as of today.

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