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Offline DavidR

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Re: This webforum under attack
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2006, 03:06:52 PM »
Well, adding an additional step to the registration process, especially the sending of a registration activation link by email would at least slow things down and possibly deter some. Especially when they have to give a live email address (which can be traced) otherwise they can't complete the registration and can't post. I know that they could use hotmail, etc. to get throwaway addresses but it adds a little more hassle and effort for a few spams before the registration is killed.
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Re: This webforum under attack
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2006, 03:55:22 PM »
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Well, adding an additional step to the registration process, especially the sending of a registration activation link by email would at least slow things down and possibly deter some.
This is the preferred method used by most forums and if your serious about joining a forum, isn't a deterrent.
If your intention is to post a lot of garbage in a lot of places, this would definitely be a deterrent.
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Re: This webforum under attack
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2006, 09:01:59 PM »
Hi forum members,

How could I know that my words would be that prophetic: "I think they were manually put there. Normal folks and webforum users cannot imagine what a bunch of negative oriented people are our out there, that finds joy in putting spam out just to irritate, troll postings just to spoil the pleasure of others, doings things for reasons of jealousy or plain simple because they cannot stand a nice atmosphere."
To-day was another sad day for this valuable forum, and all the positive forces here have lost out (our PM possibilities).
Cannot we get back as sort of compensation our off-topic for the loss of all our PMs, lest it be under some strict new rules and condictions of all threads being taken out at once in case of any slight flaming or trolling. It could give off a signal that most of us have a positive view here, and apart from two sick minds we have a healthy avast community that has the computer-users' best interest at heart. That is what this forum is all about, isn't it?
Let end this day on a positive turn, please,

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Re: This webforum under attack
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2006, 08:18:42 AM »
Yea, I got a spam email from a JessicaA claiming to be admin yesterday aswell, basically saw right threw it as soon as it was delivered, as  i never get emails from avast, so i knew something was up.

Not as pissed off as some here are, its only some spam, aint like its the end of the world, however i am glad that I received an email from the REAL admins stating that they were sorry and had now patched up the problem, not many websites would send an email saying sorry for spam being delivered to your email addy via there pm system.

Good to know that avast peeps have put a stop to it ;)
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Re: This webforum under attack
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2006, 12:33:05 AM »
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You are tight, E-S ... most would not send out an email apology. So, I would also like to thanks the admins for doing this. It is one of the things we love about this forum ... the awil team has integrity to do the right thing.


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