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by **Ghostrider** » 30 Jun 2007, 10:01

Heh..

I'm PM'ing my bootie off ( much to the delight of Kat Lady :grin: ) giving u lot nasty members and posts.. LOL.

Prob i.m.o. is that most Admins are locate States-side, which gives spam-bots a LARGE window to post without interference.. You lot DO sleep don't you? :grin:

So, again i.m.o. you need an ACTIVE Admin EU-side and Asia/Oceania-side to cover most of the global time-zones...
OR you need some-one that just doesn't sleep :grin:

by **leaf** » 30 Jun 2007, 17:12

LOL, ROTFLAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Though, I think you are right, too.

by **Kat Lady** » 30 Jun 2007, 17:18

Personally, I only take Kat-naps! And yes, Ghostrider, your bootie is delightful! :wink:

Actually, we are working on something that may catch quite a few without Admin intervention. This Kat is wearing down her claws by pouncing on spam so much! :grin:

by **Ghostrider** » 30 Jun 2007, 17:50

I PM'd Lizzy regarding a way to stop MOST of em on the Save the Trees board.. But it does require Admins being active, although not all in different timezones...

On the forum I mod on, ALL new members need to be validated by an Admin BEFORE being able to post. This catches a lot of spam-bots that sign-on with names like 'sexy chickas in KAT-suit' :grin:
It also catches the people that sign on with intelligent names like 'fguemddsh'. Even if they appear to be real, they're immediately listed suspicious.
Another reason for it is that we don't allow alter-ego's on that forum and by checking the new member's IP-address ( often also the same for various spam-bots.. ) against those allready in the data-base, we catch double identities.

You wouldn't believe how many flame-wars we HAD which were from people that were 'fighting' with themselves... ridiculous..

But it IS a way... Asking for validation e-mails just doesn't work... A lot of these bots sign on and then validate themselves by confirming the e-mail 5 minutes later... VERY annoying...

by **Kat Lady** » 01 Jul 2007, 13:05

Have you noticed less spammers today so far Ghostrider? :grin:

by **Ghostrider** » 01 Jul 2007, 13:14

None so far, but that could be because there's this mean, guard-Kat on duty :wink:

I'm not critising you Admins, Kat, just giving my 2 cents :grin:

by **Kat Lady** » 01 Jul 2007, 14:57

Ghostrider wrote:I'm not critising you Admins, Kat, just giving my 2 cents :grin:

Oh, I don't take it as criticism at all! You are very helpful spotting those spammers.

The reason I asked is that we have installed something to deflect some of the spambots. It seems to be doing a great job so far! :grin:

by **Lizzy** » 01 Jul 2007, 15:54

Whispers very softly... It certainly seems to be doing its job at the SoT board (don't want to jinx the whole thing! :wink:

)

by **Ghostrider** » 06 Jul 2007, 19:25

Aaaaaaand here we go again...

Freeds is an offender... sex for sale in announcements section!

Hehehe, nothing like a Tree Sniffing Spam Hound on guard-duty! :grin:

by **Twyrch** » 06 Jul 2007, 19:42

Ghostrider wrote:Aaaaaaand here we go again...

Freeds is an offender... sex for sale in announcements section!

Hehehe, nothing like a Tree Sniffing Spam Hound on guard-duty! :grin:

Not all of us can live on the forum, Ghosty. :wink: :grin: :-)

by **Kat Lady** » 06 Jul 2007, 19:46

Ghostrider wrote:... sex for sale in announcements section!

Was it reasonably priced at least? :wink:

Anyway, he is pushin' up the daisies now.

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