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Post by gratefuldeb67 » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:42 pm

In one week this section has turned into a major load of spam!
Wow Rein, you must be pulling your hair out.
Good luck to all here on NoS!
Peace,
Debs
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Post by reinhard » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:45 am

Ugh. Yeah, they launched a major offensive over the long weekend. Figured (correctly) that system administrators everywhere in the US would be off celebrating. There were about 50 spam accounts set up since Thursday. It took just about 10 minutes to delete them (hope I didn't hit any innocent bystanders). Sadly, I'm getting very good at identifying these accounts. I think I am going to write a program to do it automatically or hack the phpbb code directly because it's only going to get worse. I wish the built in phpbb filtering were better... (icq address and website and signature and location are the giveaways, not the ip address and email and username that are currently all you can filter).

Reinhard

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