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14 years 10 months ago #9586 by 13fcolt
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Is it just me or have the spammers been out in force lately?
not just here but several of the other forums I go to seem to have an increase.

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14 years 10 months ago #9589 by adminv15
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They are a pain! Today there were 20+ fake accounts created. Essentially the captcha had been hacked. I've changed the registration system twice in the last day and so far it seems like this new one is working.

Sorry for all the irrelevant content. If only spammers could be used for holding targets.

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14 years 10 months ago #9593 by 13fcolt
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Nothing you need to apologize for.
now wheres that pic of the chinese soldier holding up a target.

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14 years 10 months ago #9596 by crux
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Thanks to everyone who flags the spammy posts. I saw one flagged in my inbox this morning and swooped down to shred it with glee.

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14 years 10 months ago #9602 by Charlie
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Yeah. There were like five of them with different nics, but all the same crap: Buy watches! Buy Viagra. Buy, buy, buy!

I sent a message to the webmaster; "Cleanup on Aisle Three!".

I don't know what motivates these cretins. I had to close the forum on my club's brewing site because I was getting 20 or more of them a day, and they were defeating captcha and enhanced captcha. These days we request that you e-mail the site admin if you want to be added to the forum. That works pretty good ;)

Charlie

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14 years 10 months ago #9610 by mantawolf
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They do it because they get a penny for the one idiot out of 10,000 that buys something.

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14 years 10 months ago #9611 by mlotziii
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I'll do just about anything for a few pennies.

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14 years 10 months ago - 14 years 10 months ago #9616 by Bob Downey
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:laugh: I feel that way too.
I remember a few years ago the news had a spot about the Italians selecting a patron saint for the internet so they could pray for deliverance from the evils of spammers.
I wonder who was selected?

All praise Google! :laugh:

Here it is

Patron Saint of Internet Shines in New Data Center at Boston College

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The Vatican has declared that St. Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the Internet, and now his image — in the form of a stained-glass window — casts its colors in Boston College’s new data center (left).

According to The Boston Globe, the center is housed in a building formerly owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and sold to the college in 2004. When the college took over, it preserved this and other stained-glass windows in what had been a seminary dormitory.

One of the windows depicts St. Isidore (c. 560-636), who served as a powerful bishop in present-day Spain and is best known for his voluminous writing on a host of topics. His most influential work was the Etymologies, also known as the Origins, an encyclopedic tract in which he tried to record everything that was known. Small wonder that the church saw fit to recognize him as the Internet’s patron.
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14 years 10 months ago #9617 by Akai
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Now I understand where the wife's coming from too :evil:

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14 years 10 months ago #9621 by Charlie
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Bob Downey wrote: I remember a few years ago the news had a spot about the Italians selecting a patron saint for the internet so they could pray for deliverance from the evils of spammers...

Here it is...

The Vatican has declared that St. Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the Internet...


Well good for them! We needed one.

I think we ought to write a letter to Al Bore too. In the long run it's his fault, 'ya know :P .

Charlie

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