[Coco] forums restore

[Sean]

What about forcing a moderator to approve new registrations?  Maybe
have a 'reason for applying' field to screen out the bots.  There
can't be that many legit new registrations in the CoCo community...

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Roger Taylor<operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> At 03:15 PM 7/8/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> Yup, that's the one I saw.
>> I wish slow deaths upon such spammers!
>
>
> I can see who's in the forums and what they're doing and their information.
>  3 spammers were just deleted. 3 servers that were browsing the forums
> wildly and attempting to post were just banned.  This cleared up the
> activity log and took a load off the site.  One spammer's IP was changing
> (the last 2 numbers) so I just blocked their IP as such #.#.*.* and they're
> gone right now.
>
> The bad part.. when the 7/5 backup is restored, I'll have to do this again,
> as I'm working with a site image originally from 2008 with a handful of new
> posts added yesterday and today.
>
> I also blocked all *.ru e-mail addresses.  Soon to follow (sorry, guys) will
> probably be gmail, and maybe yahoo.  I don't use anybody's e-mail address
> for anything so there's no need for anybody to hide them.  They don't appear
> in any posts, either.
>
> I think a more defensive action in the sign-up process will help a Lot.
>  However, this can discourage some new visitors from joining the gang.
>
> We always snap back after mishaps like this so I expect things to be back to
> normal within a week or two, but I'll have to spend more time blocking known
> spammer IPs.  The huge list I added that kept the site fairly clean for a
> long time is no longer there, so I'll do that again and keep a better eye on
> things.  Thankfully, Robert Gault has notified me when somebody posted spam
> and it was usually a real person who signed up and posed as a CoCo user.
>
> Again, this is just typical stuff we have to deal with occasionally, but
> it's painful for the admin to waste days of time at the keyboard trying to
> repair what a trasher did.  I still don't know how the PHP and MySQL folks
> just can't get it right after all these years.  With each new upgrade, we
> have new vunerabilities, and since they're posted on the web for all to see,
> the spammers go right for it.
>
> Microsoft should also be ashamed at robbing the entire planet and causing
> more grief than any company has ever even come close to.  Now they're
> pushing Windows 7 at the worst economical times since the Great Depression,
> and offering 50% off if you preorder.  No thank ya.  Face lifts just don't
> qualify for an upgrade these days.  That's why I gave up on Money years ago
> when I saw no difference between upgrades, just more HTTP ads and links in
> the software's "home page" which they seem to push into every new program
> now.  I did try out their newest Money title (trial) but it deleted my paid
> copy of Money 2006 and now I can't recover it, so they stole my software and
> I have no way to access my money files now.
>
> Folks, it's just a huge mess we have and nobody is immune to being screwed
> at any given time.  You'll wake up tomorrow and your hard drive will just
> quit working or your web site will be on the blitz by a bunch of commies.
>  Your $1,000 laptop will become a $5 rummage sale item, with nobody at fault
> and nobody to "pay you back".  It's getting worse.  And Google pretty much
> owns the web now.  There's nothing on the planet that can stop them now, I'm
> afraid.  Get used to it.  If you deal with Google, nothing is private about
> your life, and they know what you're doing and what you like.  Because of
> this, they know where you're going and what you'll be doing.  Since they own
> MySpace, and the entire planet is advertising their life and every thought
> and more, we're all screwed and our friends as well.
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
>
>
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