Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-05-04 Thread Art Tevs
Actually the new feature, where the moderators has first to approve the very first post of any new member should already keep the bad guys away. This feature is already in action, since couple of days, as I have posted previously. I am not a friend of using a lot of anti-spam things like

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Osfield
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Guy g...@dvp.co.il wrote: What about rewriting some distorted code when posting a message, I think I saw it once on some forum? The forum subscription already has this feature. ___ osg-users mailing list

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-05-04 Thread Guy
What about rewriting some distorted code when posting a message, I think I saw it once on some forum? Guy. -- Robert, yes, it happens that spammers just do register on forums to post something there. Mailing lists doesn't look that attractive as forums, therefor there are human

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-05-04 Thread Gordon Tomlinson
-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Guy g...@dvp.co.il wrote: What about rewriting some distorted code when posting a message, I think I saw it once on some forum? The forum subscription already has this feature

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-04-29 Thread Art Tevs
Robert, yes, it happens that spammers just do register on forums to post something there. Mailing lists doesn't look that attractive as forums, therefor there are human controlled spam bots around. In almost 4 months of forum existing there were 2 spam messages out of around 3000 usual

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Osfield
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Art Tevs arti_t...@yahoo.de wrote: Robert, yes, it happens that spammers just do register on forums to post something there. Mailing lists doesn't look that attractive as forums, therefor there are human controlled spam bots around. In almost 4 months of

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Osfield
ARffhghghghg spam getting through the forum again We had no spam on the mailing list of many many years, right up until we introduced the dual forum/mailing list. We've only had two spam post, but two is still too many. Robert. ___ osg-users

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-04-28 Thread Roland Smeenk
I don't see anything special in the log files so this looks like a manually registered user. I removed the user and deleted the original message from the forum. -- Roland -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11011#11011

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Osfield
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Roland Smeenk roland.sme...@tno.nl wrote: I don't see anything special in the log files so this looks like a manually registered user. Does this mean spamers are registering just for the purpose of spaming, or could it be that legitimate subscriptions are being

Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.

2009-04-28 Thread Roland Smeenk
Zarim registered yesterday and this was his first post. The admin interface has a spam log that shows all registration attempts and the answers given to the anti-bot question. This user was not in those logs. It could be that this spambot can register to forums by letting humans answer the