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Forum Index : Windmills : 01/01/1910
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Pt w/field Matt Senior Member  Joined: 24/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 105 |
hi all been following the new members profiles and their seems to be alot of new members born 01/01/1910,are these legit or just hackers/time wasters? matt down south |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
Well spotted. Yeah looks like a few forum spammers popping up in there, I'll clean them out tonight. Its always a problem with any forum, as soon as we add a new login test they find a way around it. All you can do is keep an eye out for them and delete the members when you find them. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Robb Senior Member Joined: 01/08/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 221 |
Just an idea: Some other forums I visit have a section for items relating to the actual forum ist self. eg questions about forum use, posting links, changing user names, testing avitars, spoting spammers etc etc  |
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| dwyer Guru  Joined: 19/09/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 574 |
Hi all There too many new member profiles like what you said after l just read 2 page like born 01/01/1910 and i wonder if there anyway send all his message spammer back to his servo and put a block on ?? 
Dwyer the bushman |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
I've delete a few, will get rid of the rest tomorrow. There are some real forum members with the 1/1/1900 birthdate, they just didn't enter their birthdate when they signed up. Most of this stuff comes from China, which isn't much good for a country thats trying to get a good name in the industrial world. All different emails, so cant block a email domain ( I have blocked a few domains in Russia, they were trying to sign up about 10 times a night! ). At my last employer we were getting over 50,000 spams a week, a lot originating from China, so we simply blocked any IP originating in China. This stopped about 50% of the spam, but meant any valid business in China could not communicate with us, we had effectively isolated China from our internet access. Its unfortunate, but I think its something their government needs to address if they expect the rest of the industrial world to deal with them using the web. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| thefinis Regular Member  Joined: 23/08/2006 Location: United StatesPosts: 53 |
Guess one of those would be me. Just never thought that my birthday was important enough to put in. Now I'm wondering if I should go change it from whatever default 1/1/1900? the computer must put in. On looking at edit my profile it is just blank waiting for input. Finis Texas born and bred |
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