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Chomley-Warner
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Well, it had to happen. We now have four bogus members (in amongst the last five if you take a look Yith). They look like URL propagation attempts but it's only a matter of time before we get spam posts - keep your eyes open!


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 10:38 am
Old Un
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Take it they'll be deleted ?-I've had this problems on other forums , no posts within a few days then I used to PM to verify them . If the website links looked dodgy just used ot bin them unless they started posting .


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 10:46 am
Chomley-Warner
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Yith will have to do it as he has kept all the peermissions to himself!

I suppose we could just do a manual member approval - it's not like we have hundreds registering ever day?


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 10:54 am
 Yith
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Spammers... grrr... I hate them with a vengeance. I thought we were going to be lucky this time.

Right... in order that I don't have to do this all myself I've made you two into site admins.


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 11:09 am
Chomley-Warner
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Bless!


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 11:11 am
Old Un
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Cool !

*feels power going to his head already*

* stands back to allow the STBF to empty his MP40 magazine of destruction into the spammy members *

:wink:


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 11:53 am
 Yith
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uhoh...

*quickly goes back and removes guy's priviliges*


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 11:55 am
Old Un
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Ah let me delete just a few of the Allies first :lol:


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 11:56 am
Old Un
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Never quite sure what the purpose of these spurious members . We had a rash on the LR forums but I couldn't see why they bothered -most were linked to dodgy "buy viagra" sites , I suppose it's a case on any publicity is good, just seemd a lot of wasted effort .

Whats a "URL propagation attempt"


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 11:59 am
 Yith
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What they do is post on lots of sites so when the google webcrawler comes along it finds lots of links to their website.

This then increases the rank of their site on google.


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 12:05 pm
Old Un
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Arghh ! It make sense now .
Book em Danno - murder 1 !


 
Posted : 16/02/2007 12:16 pm
Chomley-Warner
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Lot of spam this morning I noticed, looks like OS cleared them out before I could get back to a computer!

Have you deleted the poster too?


 
Posted : 28/02/2007 8:17 am
Old Un
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I've deleted two users and their posts this morning

Edenceterbas7 - posted seven posts all of which were along the lines of "see here for a link to so and so giving a blow job" followed by a link I dared not look at at work

and

Drugsbuy - name says it all really .


 
Posted : 28/02/2007 8:18 am
Chomley-Warner
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Damn you, I wanted to check out that Britney one... :wink: :lol:


 
Posted : 28/02/2007 8:27 am
Old Un
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I've pm'd you the links mate !


 
Posted : 28/02/2007 8:30 am
 Yith
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Guys... before deleting, click on the IP button at the top right of these posts.

Take a copy of the IP address. Then go to the admin panel and add that IP to the ban list.


 
Posted : 28/02/2007 9:00 am
Old Un
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Will do in future !


 
Posted : 28/02/2007 9:11 am
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