Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-15 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Anyway, this has been on Heather's mind - hopefully she will come up with > an alternate solution in due course. > I assume that the software uses either mySQL or postgreSQL? The direc

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote: > I have asked Heather about this, but unfortunately our forum software > has no admin level between the current ones we give to external > moderators and complete administrative access. The latter is not > something we can grant to external moderators as it gives you acces

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-15 Thread Lagi Pittas via use-livecode
If Klaus and Richard can't be given Admin rights then the world is doomed. If it is data protection then surely you must have the some way of allowing a new employee/current employee of the company to have admin rights. But some of these nanny state laws that are totally ignored by the very peop

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-08-15 14:26, hh via use-livecode wrote: But better stop manual deletion now. As long as you do that probably nothing will improve/change. It would be an action of 2 minutes to enable you and some others (Richard) to do that in a few seconds. I have asked Heather about this, but unfort

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-15 Thread hh via use-livecode
>> Mark wrote: >> This is getting annoying. > Klaus wrote: > I just deleted 71 slavic spam postings from the forum manually again, > now THAT is getting annoying! +71 for you. Thanks for that. But better stop manual deletion now. As long as you do that probably nothing will improve/change. It wo

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-15 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
> Am 15.08.2017 um 07:30 schrieb Mark Wieder via use-livecode > : > > On 08/12/2017 02:47 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >> Thank you - I'm sure there will be no issue with giving you the relevant >> privileges. >> I know Heather has to deal with things like this on a regular basis

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 08/12/2017 02:47 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Thank you - I'm sure there will be no issue with giving you the relevant privileges. I know Heather has to deal with things like this on a regular basis and having others who are willing to assist can only help. This is getting

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Office 365 and Kaspersky and our router subscriptions seem to be working then. I got nothing. :-) Bob S > On Aug 14, 2017, at 11:50 , Jim Lambert via use-livecode > wrote: > >> Klaus wrote: >> >> I deleted the 49 slavic spam postings manually a couple of minutes ago… > > Спасибо ;) > >

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-14 Thread Jim Lambert via use-livecode
> Klaus wrote: > > I deleted the 49 slavic spam postings manually a couple of minutes ago… Спасибо ;) Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
More moderators may be helpful for some tasks, but the crux of this particular issue is the efficiency of the attacking bot, the sheer number of messages. I appreciate Klaus taking the time to delete those manually, and in the past I've ditched large batches myself. But since PHPBB provides

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-14 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Yeah, a few more community moderators would be welcome. On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Am 12.08.2017 um 23:47 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > > > Thank you - I'm sure t

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-13 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
> Am 12.08.2017 um 23:47 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > : > > Thank you - I'm sure there will be no issue with giving you the relevant > privileges. I had been asking for this a long time ago, but obviously the mothership did not want to trust a long time user (since 1999) who alr

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Thank you - I'm sure there will be no issue with giving you the relevant privileges. I know Heather has to deal with things like this on a regular basis and having others who are willing to assist can only help. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Aug 2017, at 21:26, Richard G

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Richmond Mathewson wrote: > The Forums are filling up quickly with a whole lot of nonsense about > cars in Russian (althought, oddly enough it seems to be coming from > the Ukraine). Thank you for the report. In the future, please use the "Report Post" link near the upper-right of each post.

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I don't know whether to laugh or cry; the latest "TERenist" is flooding the Forum with links to the Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities! Richmond. On 8/12/17 10:50 pm, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I guess we can use the "foe" feature to hide their posts (turns them into a si

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
I guess we can use the "foe" feature to hide their posts (turns them into a single line).I'll see what it does to the digest shortly. > > On Aug 12, 2017 at 1:55 PM, (mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com)> wrote: > > > > Someone left the back door off the latch: b

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Someone left the back door off the latch: bestdocs DilNeva and so it goes; and if everyone is "off" for their weekend it will keep going until we really are flooded. R. On 8/12/17 4:38 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: The Forums are filling up quickly with a whole lot of nonsense about cars

Re: Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > The Forums are filling up quickly with a whole lot of nonsense about > cars in Russian > Maybe they mistook it for an election? :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

2017-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
The Forums are filling up quickly with a whole lot of nonsense about cars in Russian (althought, oddly enough it seems to be coming from the Ukraine). Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri