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03-16-2012, 08:58 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
I have temporarily closed registrations. I can still add users manually, of course, so if anyone you know wants in, just drop me a line.
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Now we need a border fence and predator drone smilies.
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Much of MADNESS, and more of SIN, and HORROR the soul of the plot.
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03-16-2012, 09:14 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
Do you need help dealing with the spam-load?
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03-16-2012, 10:06 PM
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
I've had my finger in that dyke for a while now, and we didn't get flooded until I took it out to go get a sammich.
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03-17-2012, 07:30 AM
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Elephant Talk
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Norton's Empire
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hey liv wanna compare notes? I've been able to keep spambot registrations down to about 4-5 a day, which is easy enough to check through. I had a slight uptick recently and went shopping at vbulliten.org for fresh ammo.
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03-17-2012, 09:40 AM
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
rndtrett
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03-17-2012, 09:46 AM
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Admin of white Borts, red Borts and Borts of various colours
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
I'd love to, raven, thank you. I just went to ban Doctor X's buddeh rndtrett and saw that we have two new registrants even though I frikkin disallowed all new user registrations yesterday. Obviously spammers have completely defeated vB, at least this old version of it.
eta Okay I see how they pulled off that miracle. They registered just before I closed registrations and clicked the activation link a couple of hours ago. 
Last edited by livius drusus; 03-17-2012 at 10:36 AM.
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03-17-2012, 09:54 AM
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
--J.D.
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03-18-2012, 08:08 PM
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Elephant Talk
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Norton's Empire
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
liv, I sent you a pm with the anti-spam add-on I've been using, and with the configuration choices I made.
basically, the add-on (on top of doing a lot of other stuff that I might like some day but which doesn't directly address spambot eradication) lets me use two forms of human identifaction, instead of having to choose 1 per vanilla vbulletin. I'm requiring a recaptcha image and answering a randomly selected question. currently I have about 8 questions, and I change them up every few weeks when it looks like the spambot-masters have figured them all out.
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03-18-2012, 09:16 PM
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Admin of white Borts, red Borts and Borts of various colours
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
Got it, raven, thank you kindly. It looks like a highly versatile and useful hack. 
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03-18-2012, 11:15 PM
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Admin of white Borts, red Borts and Borts of various colours
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
vm installed the hack (love that one page moderation/question setup, raven) and I've reenabled registrations. Now let us never speak of this again.
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03-18-2012, 11:46 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Invasion of the spambots
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Much of MADNESS, and more of SIN, and HORROR the soul of the plot.
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03-26-2012, 10:43 PM
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