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I moderate a forum called Aeon Flux Top Level and we've been hit daily with a spammer, advertisements for ringtones and drugs mostly but occasional gibberish.

Is there any way to block these?

― Barb e (Barb e), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

The only way to reliably do it at the moment is to set the board to registered posters only. You can do this by going to the new questions page, clicking on the "administer board" link, and setting it there. Let me know if you get stuck w/it, and I'll do it for you.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

Pashmina, are you a moderator? I would appreciate your help if you are, I can't fig it out, been working on it an hour or so now. Just don't know how to do it.

I've gotten so many posts today on the Cafe Irreal column on my board and I work long hours, too tired to delete them all tonight. Whoever is doing this is a real jerk, sigh.

Thanks for any help.

― Barb e (Barb e), Friday, 21 July 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Pashmina, thanks so much. I came home last night and saw the problem solved and was to tired to post, but what a relief.

But I'm stunned to find that such a simple answer to it, I wouldn't think they would not reply as a logged poster.

Why is that? What's the difference, because it can be traced?

― Barb e (Barb e), Saturday, 22 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

We are having the same problem as Aeon Flux with 15 bits of spam appearing on the same thread in one day. I have warned regulars that we are changing to register-only but a lot of people are saying that they are having a hard tim receiving their login details.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

or using ebay

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

a hard tim is good to find

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I have't been able to get on the forums for two days, until I used Google Cache. Why is that? Is anyone else having this problem?

Also, look at this at http://www.seedyuk.com/mysql.php:

Seedy UK (beta)
Doggers' Paradise

25 registered doggers.

name age join date
ken 24 2006-08-05 12:32:13
john 25 2006-08-05 06:08:48
nigel 46 2006-08-05 06:08:05
patrick 33 2006-08-05 06:08:49
sarah 24 2006-08-05 06:08:30
steve 23 2006-08-05 07:08:02
kelly 25 2006-08-05 08:08:29
Dubya 60 2006-08-05 09:08:55
Ben 28 2006-08-05 10:08:01
ken 26 2006-08-06 12:08:32
Steven Seagal 55 2006-08-06 12:08:02
ken 255 2006-08-06 12:08:21
David Hasselhoff 50 2006-08-06 07:08:15
David Blunkett 58 2006-08-07 12:08:38
Cpt Hen Fap 22 2006-08-09 03:08:46
Steve 50 2006-08-09 06:08:01
jelkino 32 2006-08-09 09:08:35
nik 32 2006-08-09 09:08:16
Esteban Buttez 37 2006-08-10 12:08:00
Dom PantsnVino 23 2006-08-10 06:08:28
Pashmina 41 2006-08-11 06:08:55
pwnj_haha 66 2006-08-11 06:08:02
Poxy Fule 66 2006-08-11 06:08:31
Hen Fapper III 27 2006-08-12 01:08:57
Simon Cowell 47 2006-08-15 12:08:00

― Barb e (Barb e), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

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