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Peter Ahlstrom

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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2006, 05:42:43 PM »
Does this forum have a setting to make all forum registrations have to be approved by a human being?
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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2006, 01:02:59 PM »
Maybe, but I'm sure not going to be the one roped into doing something like that.
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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2006, 05:45:08 PM »
any way to block all .ru accounts?
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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2006, 05:52:23 PM »
The example it gives is for specific email addresses, but I put "mail.ru" in there anyway, just to see.
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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2006, 11:40:10 PM »
Looks like the protection has worn off. I know TWG is really small, but it seems almost like someone saw the added protection and compensated his bots programming in response.

I recommend deployment of tactical nuclear weapons as our escalating response.

I dislike ookla's suggestion; anything that makes life too hard for new members to join is just asking to kill any potential growth of the forums. Image verification really is my suggestion, but I have no idea whether that is a plugin available for the TWG forum software.
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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2006, 11:49:47 PM »
except it seems to be real people,... so image verification might be a problem

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Re: More anti-spam protections
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2006, 12:25:31 PM »
Yeah, I'm actually pretty convinced these are coming from people being paid to hit forums and post spam. We'll work on more anti-spam features in the future.
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