C, Jill, and Bunny: A little email to our automatic signup f

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C, Jill, and Bunny: A little email to our automatic signup f

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As you guys know we board Administrators have been flooded with automatic signups in the past several weeks. Well, I was tired of going in and deleting this crap so I emailed the individual that was doing this with the email provided at signup.

This is my email below.


To Whom it may concern,
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>Over the last several weeks you have automatically registered at my message
board with urls linking to objectionable sites. I want you to cease and desist this action
now! I have logged your IP's and will inform your ISP of the aggressive spamming
for your web sites at message boards. I among many other board administrators are
tired of seeing this filth register at our boards.
>
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>My site is http://www.thexdream.co.uk/forum
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>Remove me or I will have no recourse but to report you to the proper agencies.
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>Bamfer
>X Dream Administrator



Their response?


ok. np.
droped from the database. thanks and sorry for inconvenience.

Eugene



It worked! Just threating a little action goes a long way. Other administrators have done the same thing and got results. :D There is eventually going to be a mod not to allow automatic signups. A human person has to type in a group of letters and numbers before they click "register". This will stop all the automatic signups for sure. ;)

(would have u2u'd you guys but the u2u's are still down. :( )
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Post by NachtcGleiskette »

There's something about the name "Eugene" that just screams pervert to me......
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I already got one guy's sites taken off the net, by going to their web host/registrar. their domains are locked so they can't even move to a new host without registering new domains. but that's just one guy.... there are several, and for every one where you ask them to stop and they do, or get them shut down, a new one will arise. not exactly a fix.

are you talking the sweethotgirls.com guy with the incest and bestiality porn? or the guy who uses real looking names with hotmail accounts? the for-rape.com/for-incest.com guy? the boom.ru guy? or the drug pedddling guy?

you get rid of one, 5 more pop up in their place :-/

I am SO fed up with web spammers. i've learned to deal with email spam (Thunderbird, how I love thee) but these web guys are getting to be worse. first i had to deal with it on both the HS and my own blog. my own, i opted to switch to LiveJournal and only let members post replies to my entries, because i was getting up to FORTY new spam comments a day, which i had to delete individually (simply can't leave them, or they win. all they want is links to their site to boost their Google Page Ranking) Heathen Sent was purposely broken so no one could comment. and now, over half the new signups are infact generated by spam robots! every time i log intothe site, i (or C if he gets there first) have to delete at least 2, and sometimes up to 5 spammers a day. THIS is why we have the membership approval,a nd why everyone now has to wait to be approved before they can post. so that we don't miss any, and can delete them quickly. you can thank the spammers.

and if your name is Erik, Johan or Frank, I have had to block your name and all variations of it (adding numbers, letters, whatever) from being used... so sorry, but one guy was using them for spam accounts repeatedly, so i blocked them.
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Post by kurtlover »

Originally posted by NachtcGleiskette
There's something about the name "Eugene" that just screams pervert to me......
*snicker*
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I deleted seven Eriks one day. Fucker.
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Post by Tatu »

But Jill! NS so badly needs incest and bestiality porn!

*drops trou and hops up in Bunny's arms*

Look! I killed two birds with one stone!!

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Yep! All of the above Jill. In fact they are working on a mod that will make a human person type in a group of letters/numbers when you first register to eliminate automatic signups. Automatic signups can't do that. This will be a mod all XMB admins will want. Many sites do that to put a stop to all the bot spamming.

xmbxtreme.com has all the cool hacks for versions running 1.9.1 Final. If I'm correct Jill, NS is running 1.9 Final (pre-RC1)? Upgrade to 1.9.1 Final and you'll correct the problem with the U2U's. They have a Membership Approval v3.1 mod which works fine with 1.9.1. I don't have it installed(considering) but I think upgrading and installing the more recent mods will correct that problem. Code has changed since 1.9 Final. Mods won't work with the older 1.9 versions. Not only that Rename User(Change Username) is part of XMB software now. No mod involved. ;)
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