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DChapman
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Joined: 27 Nov 2004
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Location: Hudson Valley, NY
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 Posted: Mon 16 Mar 2009 14:19 Post subject: The War Against Spammers |
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| If your intention of joining The Study of Racialism is to SPAM nonsense like porn and drugs, you are in the wrong place. You might as well not waste your time here and do not post the SPAM. It will be immediately deleted and you account deactivated. Please take your nonsense some place else. |
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DucorpsToo
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
{Posts: 223 }
Location: Southern California
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| I just saw another "Cialis" spam-posting here in this forum. Is there any way that a well-written "bot" is responsible for this and is somehow fooling the registration process?? I just can't see anyone going through all of that trouble just to post about their Viagra.... |
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fwsweet
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Joined: 26 Nov 2004
{Posts: 5380 }
Location: Palm Coast, FL
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| DucorpsToo wrote: | | Is there any way that a well-written "bot" is responsible for this and is somehow fooling the registration process? |
It is possible, I suppose. The first hurdle is to correctly interpret the distorted images of letters and numbers on the registration screen. The second hurdle is to click on a link in the confirmation email sent to the newly-registered member.
We get about 2,000 visitors per day, of which about 100-150 are spammers trying to register. Given those numbers, I think it more likely that someone in Sri Lanka or Szechwan is paid one cent for each successful registration at a popular site. I have been thinking about blocking access from non-US IPs to find out if this has an impact. Unfortunately, doing this would shut down legitimate members who live overseas. |
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fwsweet
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Joined: 26 Nov 2004
{Posts: 5380 }
Location: Palm Coast, FL
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As part of our never-ending war against spammers, I have banned certain entire nations from this site. This is because most spam comes from sites in these nations. If you are trying to join from one of these nations and get the error message, "Sorry, your nation is banned from this site," but still want to join, send me an email (admin@thestudyofracialism.org) and I shall make an exception for you.
The banned nations as of 2/19/2010 are:
- Belarus
- Bulgaria
- China
- Costa Rica
- France
- Germany
- Israel
- Korea Republic of
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Singapore
- Slovakia (SLOVAK Republic)
- Slovenia
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Ukraine
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