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asuter



Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Posts: 9
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:25 pm    Post subject: Gratulations  
Hello

I'd like to congratulate to your good work. It seems, that the textual confirmation does its job and prevents spam-registrations. I hope, this would still be the case if once the tool would become very popular.

However, here is a suggestion for further development: Use the textual confirmation to update on-the-fly the .htaccess file. For example, log the IPs of the spammers and if there were more than X register attempts that failed from one IP within the last Y days, then add a deny entry to the .htaccess file.

I have already modified your "tc_bad_answer"-function such that it would log the IP together with a timestamp in a file. By the way, no panic, I haven't commented out or deleted anything...

Are the community spam notifications available for us - the community? Any statistics? Would be interesting to know some numbers/stats.

Best regards
Adrian Suter
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:30 am    Post subject:  
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I'd like to congratulate to your good work. It seems, that the textual confirmation does its job and prevents spam-registrations. I hope, this would still be the case if once the tool would become very popular.

Thanks a lot! And yes, I think that Textual Confirmation (TC) would be even more effective if become popular. Sometimes, if a spam bot fails to register, then a human spam-registers manually. But if TC is installed on many boards, the human will become tired very soon and will just skip such boards.

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However, here is a suggestion for further development: Use the textual confirmation to update on-the-fly the .htaccess file. For example, log the IPs of the spammers and if there were more than X register attempts that failed from one IP within the last Y days, then add a deny entry to the .htaccess file.

Thanks for suggesting. Most likely, something like it will be in the future versions.

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Are the community spam notifications available for us - the community? Any statistics? Would be interesting to know some numbers/stats.

Unfortunately, at the moment the numbers are unknown, even for me. I need time to work on it. But earlier or later, It will be have done.
donjoe



Joined: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 2
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:28 am    Post subject:  
So far so good. Very Happy No more nasties getting through - not one. I guess it helps (among other things) to have a non-english forum. Razz It may be a long, long while before any human spammer decides to pay me a visit and make a list of my 6-7 answers. And even then, all I have to do is come up with a fresh list, which is easy as pie, because I want everyone to be able to register so it's enough to write some common-sense questions quickly.

Great mod! *thumbs up*

Ok.