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Offline DaveGilbert

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Sorry for the spam!
« on: December 15, 2014, 10:16:59 AM »
As you might have noticed, we're getting zapped by spam bots. I'm doing what I can to stem the tide - deleting the posts and banning hostnames and such. Hopefully that will take care of it. Sorry about that.

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Re: Sorry for the spam!
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2014, 12:09:52 PM »
I've been doing that for two days now, it doesn't seem to stop :P
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Re: Sorry for the spam!
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2014, 02:01:49 PM »
I noticed that the majority of the spammers were using a @mail.ru email address. A large number of users using that domain registered in the last few days, and now they are spamming the forum en mass. I've deleted them all and put a ban on that domain name. Let's see if this slows down the tide, at least.

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Re: Sorry for the spam!
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2014, 08:43:27 PM »
Dave, I'm finally getting notifications again so I'm here to help ban spammers.

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Re: Sorry for the spam!
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2014, 05:57:11 AM »
Hehe, don't worry about it. It's nice to see you deleting them, but if some slip through what can you do. At least they are easily recognizable (!) and thus avoidable.