- May 22, 2005
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Some of you will have noticed some spammers getting through the shields and making it to posting on the forum.
Upticks in spam registrations are cyclical and once we get on somebody's list, it goes on for a while and then it falls off.
I feel like the kid in the Christmas SAtory who said he had developed a keen sense of the different kinds of soap that he had to wash his mouth out with.
I've become quite a connoisseur of spammers and can pretty much tell you where they are from based on their username, email addresses and server names.
I can also pretty much tell you what behaviors they'll exhibit once they register.
The Bangladeshis and Filipinos are pretty passive and pretty much confine themselves to putting references in their profile.
The ones from Romania, Ukraine, etc are underachievers....register and go.
The current crop of Chinese and Canadians are the PITA. They register, post quickly before we can get them.
In short, just hit the report post button and we will get them.
It will all pass in a few days, unless we get hit with the DDOS attack again like last year, which was a totally different animal.
Upticks in spam registrations are cyclical and once we get on somebody's list, it goes on for a while and then it falls off.
I feel like the kid in the Christmas SAtory who said he had developed a keen sense of the different kinds of soap that he had to wash his mouth out with.
I've become quite a connoisseur of spammers and can pretty much tell you where they are from based on their username, email addresses and server names.
I can also pretty much tell you what behaviors they'll exhibit once they register.
The Bangladeshis and Filipinos are pretty passive and pretty much confine themselves to putting references in their profile.
The ones from Romania, Ukraine, etc are underachievers....register and go.
The current crop of Chinese and Canadians are the PITA. They register, post quickly before we can get them.
In short, just hit the report post button and we will get them.
It will all pass in a few days, unless we get hit with the DDOS attack again like last year, which was a totally different animal.
