Spam attack this morning

Pirate · Post by **Pirate** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:34 am

There seems to be some kind of spam attack going on this morning from the online poker sites. I deleted almost 20 spam messages before I could even get to reading new posts, then more started appearing. I would really appreciate it if the list moderators / owners would set the forum to stop the ability to post spam to the forum. The ability to delete spam is great, but it sure would be nice if there were none at all.

oldgearhead · Post by **oldgearhead** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:39 am

I was wondering about the spam that is installed as a 'Post Reply' to an old
or, in some cases, a new post. Should we be deleting those posts as
well?

greyhound · Post by **greyhound** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:32 am

Perhaps if the date of the original post was identified in the index, it would alert us to those messages with spam.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:57 am

If it as a high number of views, I check it

If I don't know the poster, I check it

My Dog eats well this week. Jim

wahooker · Post by **wahooker** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:37 am

If only we had the ability to punch spammers in the face via standard TCP/IP protocols.

Ric · Post by **Ric** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:10 am

IMHO, those repeat spammers, even though they are not registered, their IP addresses are known and they should filtered out and permanently banned based on the IP address.

-Ric

Ric · Post by **Ric** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:47 am

Pirate wrote:There seems to be some kind of spam attack going on this morning from the online poker sites. I deleted almost 20 spam messages before I could even get to reading new posts, then more started appearing. I would really appreciate it if the list moderators / owners would set the forum to stop the ability to post spam to the forum. The ability to delete spam is great, but it sure would be nice if there were none at all.

It DOES seem to be getting out of hand. AGAIN !

-Ric

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:39 am

I agree it is getting old, I deleted about 50 of them poker sites myself and just another one a few minutes ago.

I've pretty much decided I'm not going to hit the delete button any more, screw it, let them spam, gets too bad everyone will just go to other sites

It is not that hard to track them down. If they are coming in on POP3 port 25 then shut that port down. Most ISP's like SBC shut down or filter that port for that very reason. But if the admins here don't want to take any steps at all to stop them than I don't see why I should waste my efforts trying to delete them, it's like pissing up wind.

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:58 am

I think it is a bot sending these things because multiple copies of same spam will come in right after each other. The admin folks should be able to filter out most of these quite easily. Wonder if there is anyway they can check the files for those we whack on a frequent basis and make a filter out of it.

- roberto

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:50 pm

I'm beginning to feel the same way. I've been killing spam all day and I'm tired of it. I'm thinking if we DON'T delete it, maybe something will get done to filter it out better than it is.

And that's all I have to say about that......

Den
(Former spam killer)

tooly125 · Post by **tooly125** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:10 pm

I think if there was a way to stop the spam that was cheap,didn't require any additional man hours and didn't compromise any of the benefits of this board it would have been enabled already.

This board has been such a big help to me that I don't mind doing my part to kill spam.

That is if you guys ever leave me any

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:13 pm

tooly125 wrote:I think if there was a way to stop the spam that was cheap,didn't require any additional man hours and didn't compromise any of the benefits of this board it would have been enabled already.

This board has been such a big help to me that I don't mind doing my part to kill spam.

That is if you guys ever leave me any

it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are abusing the Guest account.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:37 pm

Would you like to become your own boss, selling SPAM!

Maybe after I run out of Bonus Poker Chips, Jim

O'm going to hose up, my spam can is full, the dog eats good tonight.

Ric · Post by **Ric** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:51 pm

tooly125 wrote:I think if there was a way to stop the spam that was cheap,didn't require any additional man hours and didn't compromise any of the benefits of this board it would have been enabled already.

from the phpbb "features" page (http://www.phpbb.com/features.php):

Easy to Use Administration Centre
General configuration
Forum & category setup
Easy database backup and restore
Disallowed usernames
User authorisation
Word censoring
Complete member management
Emoticon setup
Optional account verification
Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
IP tracking of posts and posters
Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator

An EXCELLENT place to start would be to ban the IPs of the perpetrators of all the deleted spam. The next most excellentest place to continue starting would be to ban the IPs of all the "registered" guests that have zero posts, and most especialliest the ones 7 days or older with zero posts (or less) AND a website (which typically points to a spam or pay-per-click website). If those were never heard from again it would be too soon.

I actually sympathize with (i.e. sorry for) those here whose purpose and meaning in life has become synonymous with KILLING! spam, (not just gently deleting it). I know you set your alarms earlier and earlier and even more earlier each day to beat out the competition. But for the rest of us, the novelty is wearing off. I'm running out of recipes for SPAM. Even the dawg won't touch it. Seems to work OK in my potato gun; for sport, I may start a drive-by-feed-the-homeless program. Even that takes time.

Maybe if we can cash in our points (1000 kills earns you a hose connector, 100,000 a mask of your choice, 140,000 an online Resmed mask of your choice, etc... only a suggestion, the sponsors of this forum have not approved this schedule).

Ric wrote:Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:10 am
IMHO, those repeat spammers, even though they are not registered, their IP addresses are known and they should filtered out and permanently banned based on the IP address.

Now THERE'S a great idea!

(Wish I'd thought of it myself).

-Ric

Amigo · Post by **Amigo** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:33 am

Wulfman wrote:I'm beginning to feel the same way. I've been killing spam all day and I'm tired of it. I'm thinking if we DON'T delete it, maybe something will get done to filter it out better than it is.

And that's all I have to say about that......

Den
(Former spam killer)

I agree, Den, this has gotten totally out-of-hand. Since bots are obviously doing the inserting, manual deletion is NEVER going to make a difference, and is going to continue to be a constant source of frustration. I'm especially annoyed by all the really OLD posts it leaves behind which clutter up the Forum maddeningly.

It's time for the administration here to address this issue once and for all, or risk losing its participants.

I will no longer delete as it's a waste of my time.

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