WTF at the amount of SPAM lately?

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Where has all this spam come from recently?
Is there anything that can be done about it without making ILX registered users only or is that now inevitable?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe anyone ever buys stuff from spam. Anyone know someone who has done this?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

time for registered users only, folks.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:01 (twenty years ago)

so much spam

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

We'll introduce a captcha thing (ie "type the word that appears in this image") for not-logged-in-users as soon as I get some time to code it.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

that is a very good idea.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

I just realised what this means. The same thing that you have when signing up for hotmail etc. Great idea.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:16 (twenty years ago)

Look at the amount of spam jim has had to deal with just tonight
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/adminlog.php?board=1

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

someone remind me why people objected to registered users only again?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Monday, 1 May 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Because random googlers = teh fun. We want to make this place as wide a church as possible, after all.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 1 May 2006 07:53 (twenty years ago)

and priests use v1agra too you know

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Indeed.

I got some spam today from someone who wanted to talk to me about WEREWOLVES!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 1 May 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

My gmail is getting more spam than ever these days too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I get tons of Japanese(?) spam in my Gmail.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Objecting to registered users in response to trolling is not the same as thinking we need a stopgap against spammers.

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

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