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27-08-2007, 20:19
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A new trend in spam
Look at how "newcomers" have posted in old/ancient threads.
Note how they quote the last post in the thread Then note that at least one of the newcomers have a linky-sig Coincidence? Hell no. My theory is that them spambots have taken to a new approach to "faking real posters". Hence the quoting. Are we impressed? Hell no. Any idiot could make code that has a bot use the quote function of a messageboard, to quote the last poster, and include spam in the post.
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27-08-2007, 20:20
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27-08-2007, 21:04
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i was expecting graphs
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27-08-2007, 22:48
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Yeah, I guess it is kind of an ELIZA-like program, nothing really new...but so far unknown to spammers...
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27-08-2007, 22:54
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28-08-2007, 02:09
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King
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I'm a little upset that no one's gotten it yet. I about peed my pants I thought I was so funny.
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28-08-2007, 02:21
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Nice! I just skipped this thread at first. (Paalikles started thread, I usualy wait a couple post before I dare open them)
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28-08-2007, 19:41
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Hey, I dont post nasty stuff, do I?
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30-08-2007, 19:31
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It's bad. When I figure out how to do it, I'm going to upgrade the forum software. Then, if I figured out how to fix the mailserver, and then I can require both email autentication plus manual authentication. That's a bit more work for new members, but we don't get that many that it'd really make a difference for them. But it should stop the spam.
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30-08-2007, 19:54
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I think it's a rather standard procedure now anyways to ask for email confirmation. Plus, we're worth it
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