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« on: January 24, 2011, 06:26:07 PM » |
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Today I finally worked out how to put IP addresses and whole web hosts on the ban list. I used this excessively today to ban "users" (spambots) who have ads in their sig and so on. Should anyone have any problems accessing the forum (e.g. because I banned a host used by "normal" users too), please send a message to admin@tvsmith.comand we will try to solve the problem!! Hopefully in the next time we won't have lots of those useless "users" online who only came to advertise. |
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2011, 06:43:00 PM » |
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I hope it'll work - the list below said 200 users online today, which sounds good, but - most of them are "users" with names like 211ConcetaYatesa or something!  But then again I have to be careful because real users sometimes have names with numbers as well... (claret999 for example)! |
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2011, 07:50:00 PM » |
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Nice one Uli  |
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2011, 08:00:56 PM » |
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Thanks, it's a bit tricky, I wanna avoid to block any of the "normal" users...
So if you hear of anyone having problems, let us know!
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 10:19:47 PM » |
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Bloody hell, you wait 10 years for 211ConcetaYatesa to join, and you go and ban him!!!
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2011, 11:24:51 PM » |
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No No Don`t !! promise I`ll never ever drink twig juice for the rest of my life
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Uli
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2011, 08:53:34 AM » |
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Glad to see you all can still log in! Or maybe not...  |
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2011, 06:50:37 PM » |
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Phew, it's a hopeless task it seems... I've banned loads of users (incl. some IPs), deleted a lot of them... But still there's often one of them online and still listed are 130+ users today. (Yeah that's a little better, otherwise it'd be 200.)  |
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2011, 06:42:18 PM » |
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Well, after a week it's down to "only" 63 users now. IP bans etc. seem to work, but new "spammers" keep coming, so the problem won't disappear forever, I'm sorry.
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2011, 07:58:55 PM » |
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Well, I hope so. At the moment I am having great fun when I track an IP and am informed by the forum that the user (spammer) did receive the message: "Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum!" Makes it worthwhile.  |
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2011, 11:39:56 AM » |
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Still, there's too many spambots getting registered, I just can't delete/ban them all. Something needs to be done with the registry or some kinda update (which I don't know how). Some bans were useful, I've deleted hundreds of "users", but still it's not really been getting better, only for a few days.  |
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