Some please ban loleUtema.
Many thanks.

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What's up w/ all these damn recent spam attacks? I've seen three in a seven day period.

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Someone must have hacked the captcha that Cecil uses. It is obnoxious, truly. There have been two attacks just today (Sunday).

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Is it actually worth the effort? I mean, out of 100 spam postings, does the spammer get clicks out of it? I guess they must since it continues.

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Do taggers get any benefit? Do other vandals?

I have no idea what drives these idiots to deface property (including websites) but they do. At least Cecil hooked me up so I can help nuke the spam since I've done this on other BBS systems. It helps having two pairs of eyes instead of one.

This is one of the many things Dale did for the site when he was alive. He would regularly scour off the detritus and leave the forum sparkling clean. I rarely had to do anything when he was around.

I sure miss Dale.

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The spammer must think it's worth while. Why else?

Looks like we need some more mods on this forum. I think a few people in different time-zones around the world would be needed to keep a lid on things.

I imagine there would be few regulars who would like to contribute around the world. (Me being one of them - even though my experince is zero.)

Is there some way of filtering content as it gets submitted? Or can posting pictures be turned off? It is quite rare for photos to be posted.

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Dunno about that... I regularly post screenshots and some others do as well. I don't think banning photos/pics for everyone is the solution.

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I agree with graysky. It should be about making life hard for spammers, not regular forum members! Cecil will see what the latest forum software adds. If it only had a single click to purge all posts by a certain logon, plus add any of his IPs to the ban list, plus delete his account -- life would be easy!

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I don't think the poster is actually selling porn. I think they're looking to install rootkits and viruses on PC's whose owners are dumb enough to follow porn links on random sites. The posts generally have nothing but phrases someone looking for porn would type into a search engine. It seems they post to every forum then go-away on their own. It seems then the poster is only hoping to be on long enough for a google crawl to pick up their posts.

Imagine a 13-year old boy who is looking to fill the old spank-bank, So he types "chicks with sticks" into google; he finds some of the spam here, then clicks the link hoping for more. Then, faster than you can say "idiot" his PC is infected. If there's some noticeable sign of virus does he tell mom and dad? Hell No! that would require him to tell the 'rents how the infestation happened. Ergo, the spammer's new Zombie is secure for at least a week until someone else tries to log into the PC. A grown up in this situation is too dumb to deal with the problem anyway. So by posting porn links on random forums, the spammer knows that he's getting only the truly stupid to follow links, which is just fine with them. Pretty cynical huh?

I think what might help is putting a 10 minute lock on accounts after creation and each post. (maybe 5 minutes between posts.) A real human takes that long to compose a post worth reading, so no inconvenience there. A spambot would get an error and hopefully move on to easer fare.

Actually, the creation time was separated by several minutes, so the spambot was probably already expecting some "lock out" time. It's really like graffiti -- the best defense is to just clean it off ASAP. They get annoyed and move on eventually.

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