I don't think they're fully automated. I did institute captcha
functions, and the registrations disappeared for weeks. Then they
came back at drastically reduced rates, but still more than I wanted
to deal with.
We also instituted e-mail verification, and they are following the
verification process. Very irritating. In gmail's defense, hotmail
gets just as much abuse in my experience.
On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote:
It can happen with a lot of free email accounts. Your best bet is to
enable something like [re]Captcha, or really anything that makes your
user creation process something different from the default.
Its script-kiddy madness. Do something that breaks their script, and
you can allow Gmail (or any) accounts without worry.
--
ME2
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Eric Brouwer
<[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry. Completely unclear on my part. I too get very little spam
sent TO
my gmail account.
We were getting dozens of bogus registrations daily on our forum from
entities with gmail accounts. If allowed to register, they spam
the heck
out of the forum with pr0n posts.
On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Steve Kelsay wrote:
Strange. I have not had any problems whatsoever with spam on Gmail,
and I
use it voraciously. The spam, filters they have in place seem to have
protected me very well. Are you referring to spam being sent TO
you, or to
someone else using your address?
From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Gmail Enables -SMS TXT
Probably nothing. Gmail is, or has, become the mail account of
choice with
spammers. I run a forum for my wife, and we had to ban
registrations from
gmail accounts. Pity Google does nothing (that I know of) about
the abuse.
On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Roger Wright wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10120918-2.html
What's to keep spammers from blasting out SMS TXT messages to
people from a
free Gmail account?
Roger Wright
Network Administrator
Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076 x388
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