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General Discussion => SA Firefighter General => Topic started by: Firefrog on November 12, 2008, 06:23:33 PM

Title: Spammers and Registration
Post by: Firefrog on November 12, 2008, 06:23:33 PM

We have been flooded with attempts for spammers to join the site and post stupid advertising. We have responded to this by deleting all the offending accounts and changed the registration method. It is no longer possible to self register you must be approved before posting.

I do apologise in advance if you wish to join and it takes a little time to have your account enabled. This is hopefully a temporary situation until these spammers leave us alone.


Thanks

Title: Re: Spammers and Registration
Post by: jaff on November 12, 2008, 09:05:45 PM

I hate it when the Salvos serve it, I hate it when they try to do it to your computer and after a particulary bad RCR yep, SPAM,  though those guys are  brilliant, if only    they could change their acronym.

Title: Re: Spammers and Registration
Post by: Firey9119 on November 13, 2008, 07:18:13 PM

thats just gold jeff  :lol: :lol: :-D

Title: Re: Spammers and Registration
Post by: Firefrog on November 19, 2008, 08:24:09 AM

We have now gone back to member activation.....as a trial for a few days. With some other measures we seem to have stopped the flood of spam memberships. See what happens.

Title: Re: Spammers and Registration
Post by: SA Firey on November 20, 2008, 09:37:49 AM

Quote from: jaff on November 12, 2008, 09:05:45 PM

I hate it when the Salvos serve it, I hate it when they try to do it to your computer and after a particulary bad RCR yep, SPAM,  though those guys are  brilliant, if only    they could change their acronym.

Maybe they should change it back to CISD...but that would take the fun out of it :-P