Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 captchas, manual activation etc, because this either slow downs the community or is just very nerved. There is already some kind of captcha thing, which has to be filled out when registering. This blocks already around 20-30 registrations of spam-bots per day! Combines with the feature of first post moderation we should be able to prevent spamming effectively. cheers -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11296#11296 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-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. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 controlled spam bots around. In almost 4 months of forum existing there were 2 spam messages out of around 3000 usual messages, so the rate of spamming is still very low. However, you are right that 2 are already to much. I am currently working on the possibility to moderate only the first message of any user. However this takes time, since there are no real good mods for the phpbb forum exists, which can do that. So guys, please be patient, I will try to come up with a solution for that. Cheers, art -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11030#11030 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or g ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
Sadly the bots get around this quite easily these days, I managed to stop most at vis-sim, with manual activation, email verification, image numbers, instructions not to fill any field but name and email etc, I get a about 1 a week now that gets as far as me having to activate it, but at one point at over 100 per week hit Some clever but misguided folks in spam world __ Gordon Tomlinson gor...@gordontomlinson.com IM: gordon3db...@3dscenegraph.com www.vis-sim.com www.gordontomlinson.com __ -Original Message- From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of Robert Osfield Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:50 AM To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: Re: [osg-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. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 messages, so the rate of spamming is still very low. However, you are right that 2 are already to much. I am currently working on the possibility to moderate only the first message of any user. However this takes time, since there are no real good mods for the phpbb forum exists, which can do that. So guys, please be patient, I will try to come up with a solution for that. Cheers, art -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11030#11030 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 forum existing there were 2 spam messages out of around 3000 usual messages, so the rate of spamming is still very low. However, you are right that 2 are already to much. I am currently working on the possibility to moderate only the first message of any user. However this takes time, since there are no real good mods for the phpbb forum exists, which can do that. So guys, please be patient, I will try to come up with a solution for that. Thanks for looking in to this. It has to be a general problem that other forums see, so getting at patch for forum.openscenegraph.org may well make lives easier for other communities as well. Robert. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 hijacked? The mailing list hasn't had these same problems though, both require subscription. Is there an log of how long the user was subscribed? I removed the user and deleted the original message from the forum. Thanks. Robert. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Brand New BlackBerry Storm 9500--$250 for sale.
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 anti spam-bot questions for it. -- Roland -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11017#11017 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
