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Started by Phil Harvey, June 13, 2011, 11:59:40 AM

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Phil Harvey

June 13, 2011, 11:59:40 AM
Well, our little forum here was finally discovered by the spam-bots over the weekend.

I've manually cleaned things up the best I can and I have installed some new anti-spam software on the forum.  With any luck this will deter the spammers without causing problems for other forum users.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

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June 14, 2011, 01:21:55 PM
Well, there was another burst of spammers joining the forum today, so I've deleted most of the members who have joined today.  My apologies if you were deleted and you aren't a spam-bot.  If this is the case, please try re-registering.  New registrations will now require my approval.

Sorry for any inconvenience that these spammer scum have caused.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Phil Harvey

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June 15, 2011, 08:04:58 AM
The spam-bot registrations continued with more than 60 users trying to register in the last 24 hours.  (The normal for this forum is 3 or 4 per day.)

I have rejected all of the registrations from the past 24 hours, and have upgraded the forum software to enable better anti-spam features when registering.

If you attempted to register in the last 24 hours, please try again.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).
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