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Latest post Wed, Mar 19 2008 6:33 PM by Admin. 1 replies.
  • Wed, Mar 19 2008 6:15 PM

    • Rick Williams
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    • Melbourne, Australia
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    Spam posts.

    Hey Nick,

    I don't know if there is anything more you are able to do about it, but you are probably aware of spam postings to the forums.

    They have such interesting titles as: tXxHBwHdqlpRnO, XzQTNMhZfdpTUWNri, frlNgSQjhkdzTut and ThfQgeLtIujw!  All of them say 'Nice site!'

    I take it you have manually deleted the posts, but I still get the email notifications.

    Short of me disabling my notifications, is there anything to be done?

    Rick Idea
    Melbourne, Australia

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  • Wed, Mar 19 2008 6:33 PM In reply to

    • Admin
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    Re: Spam posts.

    Rick

    Yes, it's a pain at the minute. I am banning the IPs as they hit and reporting abuse to the IP registrar. I am also working with some regular expressions to try and combat them. Hopefully I will have this beat in the next day or two.

    Hopefully you can bear with it for a while

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