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  1. 09-14-2006, 02:25 PM #1
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    Spambots

    Yeah, we've noticed them, too.

    We're planning some server and database changes next week, so we're not going to do anything to change the registration process before that. Hopefully sometime next week we'll have some better anti-spambot capability. In the meantime, Frozen & I will ban them as fast as we find them.
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  2. 09-14-2006, 02:32 PM #2
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    Cool, thanks. In the meantime, at least people seem to have stopped feeling compelled to reply to them, which is good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    Cool, thanks. In the meantime, at least people seem to have stopped feeling compelled to reply to them, which is good.
    Ban this spamming cunt. Fucking piece of shit.

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    Do you realize that you've just posted an admission of ignorance so breathtaking that it disqualifies you from commenting on any political or economic threads from here on out?
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  4. 09-14-2006, 02:34 PM #4
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    Thanks. Could you get me a beer while you're up, honey?
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  5. 09-14-2006, 02:36 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by edg
    Ban this spamming cunt. Fucking piece of shit.

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    hey at least I don't sign all my posts.
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    Do you require members to confirm their email addresses before they can post?

    I run a vBulletin too and see spambots all the time, and most rarely get past the email confirmation.
    I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask them where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
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    Quote Originally Posted by coastal
    Do you require members to confirm their email addresses before they can post?

    I run a vBulletin too and see spambots all the time, and most rarely get past the email confirmation.
    We do. It seems like they've gotten much worse in the past month.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    hey at least I don't sign all my posts.
    Foiled I was hoping to get in all your subconsciouses so that you'd join my cult. First the bike stands, now this - must you poison everything?

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    Quote Originally Posted by edg
    Foiled I was hoping to get in all your subconsciouses so that you'd join my cult. First the bike stands, now this - must you poison everything?

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    Sorry dude.

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    Quote Originally Posted by edg
    must you poison everything?
    apparently
    Elvis has left the building
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  11. 09-14-2006, 02:46 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    Sorry dude.

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    The "-" is very endearing.

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  12. 09-14-2006, 02:48 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmear
    The "-" is very endearing.

    -Schmear
    I was very sad to see The Ski Journal and not -The Ski Journal on my invoice

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  13. 09-14-2006, 02:49 PM #13
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    I've got to try out this new style - I think it goes with my hat.

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  14. 09-14-2006, 02:50 PM #14
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    You know, if spambots ended their spam with "-" it wouldn't be so bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmear
    The "-" is very endearing.

    -Schmear
    Thank you, I thought so too.

    -iceman
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmear
    You know, if spambots ended their spam with "-" it wouldn't be so bad.

    -Schmear
    D1SCOUN† V1AGR4!!!1!!!1!1!! FR3E SH1PPI?G!!!!1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmear
    You know, if spambots ended their spam with "-" it wouldn't be so bad.

    -Schmear

    "Blah, blah, blah.

    -Spambot"

    Yeah, that works.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    "Blah, blah, blah.

    -Spambot"

    Yeah, that works.
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    I've been signing emails and pms with the "-" for years. Is that wrong?

    -KD
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    Quote Originally Posted by KnuckleDragger
    I've been signing emails and pms with the "-" for years. Is that wrong?

    -KD
    It's negative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KnuckleDragger
    I've been signing emails and pms with the "-" for years. Is that wrong?

    -KD
    No way, it's stylee, you're on the right track.

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    I've taken to using the forward slash... kinda gives off the interweb geekiness vibe a bit though.

    /ljm
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    I'm here to post in the spambot thread.

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    I actually don't mind "bestvids." Can he stay or has he been kicked off the isalnd too?
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  25. 09-14-2006, 03:24 PM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by commonlaw
    I actually don't mind "bestvids." Can he stay or has he been kicked off the isalnd too?
    I nuked bestvids because it was pure spam, even if it wasn't super-offensive. I guess I can restore it if the collective says I should.
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