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Spammers getting in the front door

Postby draglist » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:41 pm

You may have noticed a few nonsensical names show up as new members lately. Over the past few days, about five spammers have joined up. I kicked them off one at a time as I saw them. These are guys who showed up with names like soewkrjs or some other combination of useless characters. When I checked them out, they had a pharmacy URL or some other type of spam site listed. I'll try to keep on top of this once or twice a day, but if we start getting inundated with these buttheads, I'm going to have to set it up so that nobody can join without asking me... Hope it doesn't come to that... I've been happy to find a few of our old friends join us daily... today it was Wheelzman, Tom Howell, and new pal Aragorn. Those are the kind of new members that I WANT to see... I'll let you know if I have to set it up so that each new member has to get personally approved. If it goes that way, I might ask for some moderator help so that none of our friends has to wait too long to join. bp
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Postby Billy Mac » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:50 pm

Its your party, BP....Me and the Doc are just here for the beer :roll: ..... :wink: (not to mention some great comeraderie among friends 8) 8) )
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Postby pro70z28 » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:10 pm

So Bill, that wood' B "Smoked Spam"........... :D :D :D

Thanks for ALL you do BP.
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Postby Lippy » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:37 pm

Thanks for looking out for us all Bp!! Your the best! :D
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Postby RobbieG. » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:57 am

So Bill, that wood' B "Smoked Spam"........... :D :D :D

Thanks for ALL you do BP.
He just dropped the "Spam in the can". :lol:
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Postby Rapid Randy Baker » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:02 am

Good Job BP!! :)
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Postby Barb » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:37 pm

Hey Bill, they're back :( GNKWQOSG and wholesalemails

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Postby draglist » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:01 pm

Thanks, Barb. I'm on it. I took the night off (as in ate dinner, drank two beers, and fell asleep in the recliner -- note my 5:41 am good morning note). I'll give these guys the boot. bp
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LOCK DOWN!

Postby draglist » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:51 pm

OK, gang, this just reached the tipping point. Yesterday, we had one REAL new member (Matt) and four of these bozos with the fake user names. I just killed all of those names, but I'm not going through that again. So from now on, all new users will have to be approved by me. I'll stay on top of it as best I can. If folks end up having to wait too long, I might ask for help with this. I don't know if that's possible, but we'll check it out. For now, ya gotta come see BP before you can play... bp
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