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#1 Just a word of warning to Spammers

Posted: Thu, 26 Jan 17, 19:13 pm
by bernomatic
Forums are not democracies. Forums may be publicly accessible, but they are NOT public spaces. They are equitable to the front yard of homes, and any speaking that is done in them is at the grace of the forum owner.
Some forum owners decide that in order to cut spam down to a minimum, they will use a central reporting and blacklist service. If you spam (advertise without the behest of a forum owner), then you may fall onto a blacklist, and find your access limited by hundreds, or in the case of StopForumSpam's blacklist, thousands of forums.
There are no rights on forums. Even as a member, you are a guest.

While at the present The Sagitta Cantina does not use an automated system to check new members, we do look up IP addresses, Emails and/or user names on StopForumSpam. If you are listed there under any one of these items, your membership may be deleted without warning.

#2 Re: Just a word of warning to Spammers

Posted: Fri, 27 Jan 17, 02:30 am
by luke strawwalker
Good... lets hope it cuts down on the crap that NOBODY here wants to read... :)

You wanna sell something-- GO ELSEWHERE!

OL J R :)

#3 Re: Just a word of warning to Spammers

Posted: Sun, 05 Feb 17, 19:01 pm
by bernomatic
They're still attacking the walls, today I noticed 197 guests had been active in the past 24 hours. Usually that number is around 20-30. So out of the 190 assailing the Starport (assuming some may have been actual guests), two got in. The app I use looks at the username, IP address, and email address. It then totals the hits it gets against their database and compares that number against a numerical setting by the forum owner. Mine is five, so there would have to be five total previous reportings of that name, IP address, and/or email address. Since their wasn't, that user's registration was allowed to go through. It is then up to me to blast the fellow as he comes in through the airlock.

#4 Re: Just a word of warning to Spammers

Posted: Mon, 06 Feb 17, 02:29 am
by luke strawwalker
bernomatic wrote:They're still attacking the walls, today I noticed 197 guests had been active in the past 24 hours. Usually that number is around 20-30. So out of the 190 assailing the Starport (assuming some may have been actual guests), two got in. The app I use looks at the username, IP address, and email address. It then totals the hits it gets against their database and compares that number against a numerical setting by the forum owner. Mine is five, so there would have to be five total previous reportings of that name, IP address, and/or email address. Since their wasn't, that user's registration was allowed to go through. It is then up to me to blast the fellow as he comes in through the airlock.
"Stand by to laser it!" -- Hugo Drax, Moonraker.

#5 Re: Just a word of warning to Spammers

Posted: Sun, 30 Dec 18, 19:04 pm
by Commander
I am seeing a significant decrease in the number of bots making it through to registration.

Who knew, a fire WALL works :roll:

#6 Re: Just a word of warning to Spammers

Posted: Thu, 10 Jan 19, 06:13 am
by luke strawwalker
Commander wrote: Sun, 30 Dec 18, 19:04 pm I am seeing a significant decrease in the number of bots making it through to registration.

Who knew, a fire WALL works :roll:
Now you just gotta figure out a way to make THEM pay for it! LOL:)

Later! OL J R :)