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kap
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:36 am    Post subject: gmail is banned, for now Reply with quote

I've just banned new accounts from signing up with gmail addresses in a weak attempt to slow down spambots, because I am too drunk to do research and stuff and try anything else, etc. If this causes other problems, well, I guess we'll soon find out right?

tarn.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This was incredibly effective on my PHPbb board. We went from about 100 spammers a day to about 5 per year. I know it's older then dirt, but it's incredibly effective and simple to install.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=344831

You guys don't even have the default captcha turned on?
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kap
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Captcha, pff! :)

I actually had a (manually) rotating registration check as well as something else set up, but I've been busy and the terminators have been adapting. To be honest, we need to upgrade anyway.

I've also been thinking about editing the registration emails that get sent out, I'd love to know more about how spambot registration technically works, I presume the different kinds do mostly the same thing.

I also also am curious whether some sort of spambotbl or something exists, it would be nice to hook into and I was thinking about how easy it would be to implement something that would be useful (on a wide school of course/unfortunately), but, as ever, busy busy.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you guys even upgrade to PHPBB3 from 2? A while back I looked into it for a friend and it seemed like you needed to do a fresh install. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it is possible, but guess who doesn't feel like finding out? There was a board converter when 3 was still in beta, I would assume it still exists, but, yeah, see previous sentence.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FYI, some dude emailed me because he wanted to sign up here and the board was rejecting his email (gmail, i assume).

I gave him frank's address.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ProgrammingAce wrote:
FYI, some dude emailed me because he wanted to sign up here and the board was rejecting his email (gmail, i assume).

I gave him frank's address.


Someone emailed me two days ago, I think, I don't know if it's the same guy.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unban if you want/need, no real big concerns. I'll look into stuff this weekend when I have time.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

(Obviously) ill-advised ban of gmail.com removed, trying something else.. and trying to avoid the captcha still. :)
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The spambots were apparently waiting for you to do that.
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