spammers knocking but not getting in
We had a lot of nasty spammers trying to get into the site this week. I probably banned half a dozen of them.
I let in several new members, too.
I can't remember now who urged me to start approving memberships - Lark, I think. Good call! We'd be flooded with trash if I hadn't done that. It's tedious to assess new membership requests, but deleting the garbage takes even longer and it's so unpleasant.
- By anonymous (not verified) at 5 Aug 2008 - 8:45pm
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spammers again - new members must be approved
The spammers have a new toy that lets them get around the captcha, so I had to start manually screening memberships again to keep them from trashing the site. It is a giant PITA for me to have to do this, and it creates a delay for legitimate members. But cleaning up the crap the spammers leave takes even more time, so this is necessary.
If I miss my guess and let a spammer in by accident, please notify me in email immediately - with either a link to the spam or the spammer's username. I'll ban the spammer and delete the spam as soon as I'm notified.
Spammers: No one here wants your junk. Go away.
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Thank you Pro!
Thank you Pro for all you do!
rec
Thanks Pro!
Really appreciate your service w/website. It sounds like a lot of upkeep re: spammers.
Thanks, pro and a friendly reminder...
...to all my fellow PA'ers that, apart from all the many hours that pro donates to keeping us tuned up and the spam turned out, there are actual costs to maintaining this website. PA has helped save my job and my sanity - defintely cost-effective! So from gratitude I contribute and invite you to consider it too. Details are at http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/292 - thanks for being here!
thanks, Agnus
Thanks for posting this, Agnus. Any and all contributions are greatly appreciated - even small ones. If everyone contributed just a bit, it would cover the costs of the site.
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
lot of spammers trying to get in
A lot of spammers have been trying to get in here. It's a pain going through the account requests to pick out the legitimate ones.
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
pro-thanks
pro--thanks for all the work you do here, visible and invisible.
Thanks Pro!
You haven't been posting much lately. . .how are you?
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."