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Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:16 pm
by steveroe
Yay - our first spam! We've hit the big time guys :?

Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:51 pm
by irrelevant
Hehe. Took me ages to find the "report" button earlier, on this new version of phpBB (it's the triangle top right of the post).

Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:45 pm
by healeydave
Ok, I did finally remove the spammers post at the beginning of this thread when I deleted the account and chose to delete all posts.

I have just installed a nifty new capatcha on the board that requires the assembly of a simple picture puzzle to complete registrations.
Hopefully, that should suffice :-)

Re: Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:32 pm
by irrelevant
Good luck :-)

I gave up on my forum, set registrations to moderator-approval, and manually verify them against stopforumspam.com. I'm up to twelve live members from nearly 80 registrations...

Re: Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:19 pm
by Ant
irrelevant wrote:Good luck :-)

I gave up on my forum, set registrations to moderator-approval, and manually verify them against stopforumspam.com. I'm up to twelve live members from nearly 80 registrations...

On that note, maybe those two worlds can collide - given that TiVo S1 has the hardware to do it, (and it's already used to output a service full of entirely blank pages) wouldn't it be interesting to introduce a TiVo hack to output a full, live, (perhaps automatically genererated) teletext service... :)

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Re: Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:56 pm
by irrelevant
or even:
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(And yes, that IS live.. really ought to sort out the time zone for the server)

PS: hi Ant - didn't realise it was the same You...

Edit: time now shows correctly!

Re: Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:00 pm
by healeydave
Hehe, nice!

Re: Spammer Countermeasure

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:35 pm
by worm
ahh, takes me back

our school used to run its own teletext service on the computer network. Great fun to hack around with :)