• ocs
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  • From: San Francisco, CA
  • Registered: 2008-05-02
  • Posts: 454

Topic: Spammer Problems

Hi all,

As you may have noticed, we've been getting hit by spammers a lot lately. Just because we wanted to keep the registration easy for the new comers, we haven't implemented complexity measures. Well, we pay the price !!! We've been going through a bunch of low-life's junk registrations and trying to clean up our user tables. This costs us a lot of time and effort, and it's utterly annoying. We ended up running some bulk-delete scripts, in the hopes of not deleting the real peeps from the users table.

In case you come to find that your account is deleted, I apologize, it was not personal - or you picked a very spammer like user name, and I took it personal and deleted you smile - . Just create a new one.

Apologies for this inconvenience.


A note to the low-life spammers, if they happen to have human eyes to read  this. "We are not here to promote your sh^%##@. We are dedicating significant times of our lives to provide Free and Open Source Software to everyone, and most likely you are the users of some of those projects. Please have some dignity and stay away from our sites and other projects' sites"

http://brilaps.com || http://blog.ocszone.com || http://miacms.org

ocs's Website

  • Registered: 2008-10-06
  • Posts: 18

Re: Spammer Problems

Thanks for that message OCS. I was getting concerned by the amount of spam here, and especially concerned by the latest porn images. I really dislike (detest) that stuff, and prefer to jump extra hurdles to get here than to see that garbage. I really believe it detracts from the great image you folks have created for miaCMS.

Last edited by tj-rv (2008-11-12 02:28:49)

  • From: Melbourne, Australia
  • Registered: 2008-05-09
  • Posts: 36

Re: Spammer Problems

Hi OCS,

Don't worry about the spammers, i'll keep the "Mia" feel and welcome anyone, regardless of spam brand, colour or race big_smile

Regards,

.Joel wink

  • Registered: 2008-10-06
  • Posts: 18

Re: Spammer Problems

I've seen a recent increase in spam on at least one other support forum I visit. FWIW today I read on the SMF Support Forum about a tidal wave of spam bot attacks that have hit the last couple of days. Initially thought to be targetted at forums running SMF 1.1.x, it's apparent that these attacks were much more widespread. The folks at SMF offer some suggestions to admins in that topic.

Last edited by tj-rv (2008-11-12 11:33:08)