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Poll: Spam attack

Admin approval of accounts
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70%
E-mail approval of accounts
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30%
 
Total votes: 23

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Ringo Flinthammer
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Post by Ringo Flinthammer » 10 Jan 2007 10:59 am

So, we have two choices:

1) No one can post on this board until an admin has approved their account. This means people who don't play the game and have no way of contact me or an officer have no way of ever being able to post here.

2) Or, once clicking on the e-mail required to activate an account, anyone can post. As we've seen in the last few days, this means that there will be spam we'll have to dump in the Mine Shaft periodically.

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Post by Beli Flinthammer » 10 Jan 2007 11:36 am

I thought it was email activated all along. No wonder we get crazy spam. I know people had trouble with hotmail not getting letters to activate their accounts, but that was two years ago and they were able to reach us in game. Time to turn it back on.
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Post by Ringo Flinthammer » 10 Jan 2007 05:48 pm

No, the spam is with e-mail activation. The spambots have been upgraded.

Without e-mail activation -- i.e. an admin manually approving accounts -- we get no spam, just new registrants (spammers or real people) who can't post.

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Post by goomba_boy » 10 Jan 2007 06:38 pm

I certainly don't mind taking my turn to approve sign-ups in the interests of keeping that kind of crap out of here...

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Post by Filan Fyretracker » 11 Jan 2007 07:05 am

if it wasnt for off server legit signups id say have sign ups back it up with an in game mail.

im wondering how they even found us.

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Post by ukator » 13 Jan 2007 06:43 am

Wow we have been getting a lot of these lately. I think approval of accounts might be the way to go.

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Post by Lehla » 15 Jan 2007 08:39 pm

What about something in an e-mail for account activation like..

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Post by Filan Fyretracker » 15 Jan 2007 08:45 pm

i say we find where they live and leave bags of burning dog pop on their door step. or just run 240v into their Cable line and fry the spammer's modem.

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Post by kandrak » 15 Jan 2007 09:38 pm

Tar and feathering works. Cattle prod up the butt would be an option too...
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Post by Maige » 17 Jan 2007 08:19 am

We've been running our boards for quite some time now with the manual admin approval. It hasn't been that big of a deal. Usually it's just us guildies that use the board, or on occasion a friend of someone's will get on and sign up, but it's usually not too hard to tell which is which. The spammers pretty much all sign up with a russian email address anyway, so that's usually a dead giveaway LOL.

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Post by Widge » 19 Jan 2007 03:35 pm

I had originally voted for "e-mail" but after what I've seen this past week, I think that changing to admin approval is the only way to stop this. Ringo and the officers shouldn't have to worry about deleting spam every time they visit the boards, and it's just a tease when I see that there's a new message in general, only to find that it's a bunch of links to foreign porn sites (which I bookmark, of course, but still...)

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