Added spam trap

[Atash Hagmahani]

I installed a filter that looks for suspicious http headers. It should work fairly transparently, but if you're no longer able to read the board (including presumably this post), that's why.

[Atash Hagmahani]

Added another one. I'll be watching to see how it does over the next few days.

It does automatically what I used to do manually, namely, check applications for membership against the Stop Forum Spam database.

What eventually happened was that the spammers were hitting me with registrations--at least several per hour 24 hours a day--faster than I could check them. I now have a backlog of 3,748 registrations, the vast majority of them spammers. Anybody who wasn't a spammer got lost like a needle in a haystack (sorry!).

Hope this works, because we need some "new blood" to keep the forums going.

I will also be linking this forum to a blog, so that you will get some fresh articles to read, probably a couple times a week, in addition to other posts.

And I'll be updating the forum software within a few days or weeks.

[Beeherder]

Thanks for hosting such a feast of information!

[Atash Hagmahani]

The spam trap is not working. They seem to work for a few days, then they stop working as the spammer software detects them and adapts. Sort of like the Borg.

I'll work on it when I get back.

[opsec]

My email service is having that same problem.