Spammers aren't a PITA to us, they don't get in.

[Joe 1320]

Since I am heavy into radio controlled airplanes, I frequent some of the R/C forums. I feel bad for the moderators on some of those forums. The spammers keep hitting them with their worthless advertising, all the moderators can do is delete posts....... they don't have to the power to ban spammers to shut them down. That's a shame, here the mods have the ability to zap and ban. There's not much for the mods to ban on here, I spend time every day cross checking each and every registration with the American Registery of Internet Providers and 99% of them get booted before they can even post a single word. Just a few facts.......

Each day, an average of 5-6 accounts get deleted before they can even get confirmation via e-mail. Once in a blue moon one of them actually gets to the point of being registered via e-mail confirmation and I shut 'em down before they can even post. Just this week alone, approximately 20 spammers have been prevented from getting on here an annoying the members.

And a note to you spammers....... registering and trying to post here is an exercise in futility. You're gonna get zapped before you post word one. It's not rocket science, there are common IPs and providers that are easily identified and we will not tolerate your garbage advertisements. There is no warning, no second chance....... it's

[Jeff_in_Atl]

Good job! Keep it up!

[Steel2686]

This site's Admins and Mods are the best in the business. They are no joke.

Also of note to spammers - In the highly unlikely event you actually do get in to post (pretty much 0% chance, but whatever), we'll just end up making fun of you and whatever worthless product you're peddling.

It ain't worth it.

[fastTa]

I was bored.

[Joe 1320]

I was bored.

Nice!

[Christopherrr]

I was bored.

Hahahaha!!!!

[Z Ya Later]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4

Enjoy

[Joe 1320]

I swear, the whole process is a relentless persuit. In conversations with some folks that are more programmer oriented, I find that many of these registrations are autonomously generated. These jerks simply run programs that search the net for anything that can be signed up for in order to post free advertising. The programs run 24/7. There is a feature in the board's software to prevent them from using that program on our site, I'm going to dig into this.

[TruckMuddr]

why not turn on the image verification??

[Joe 1320]

why not turn on the image verification??

Because that particular function isn't available. The currect GD function is "" and requires an upgrade to enable it. I've tried and for now, we're stuck.

[TruckMuddr]

Aghh, I keep forgettin this forum is still on 3.0.7. Just wondering, why doesn't anyone upgrade the forum??

[Joe 1320]

That is one step above what we have access to. That's JR's thing and right now, I guess it's not his priority.

[TruckMuddr]

Ahh, ok, I'm sure alot of people have said this, but if you need any help with VB. I've been workin with forums for awhile.

[Joe 1320]

Ha..... I'm doing things a little different. Since it's set up so that only one user name per e-mail address is now allowed, I'm not deleting registrations anymore. This way a database of all those who register is compiled. I've just enabled forum access masks so that when they make it though the registration process, they still don't have access to the forums. If it's an objectionable screen name, they get banned and not deleted. That way they cannot re-register and start over.

bwahahaha......


spammers.

[Joe 1320]

Since digging into things, there is now a "black list" of certain mail domains and IP ranges. That eliminates some of the spammer's tools, They will not be able to register.