Spam

[Fatman_do]

I would see at the bottom of the board...

Welcome to our newest member, obvious-spamer-name

and just wait to see when they would post.

Come on, who puts 'xxx' or 'insurance' in their screen name?

[ShiningDragon]

I would see at the bottom of the board...

Welcome to our newest member, obvious-spamer-name

and just wait to see when they would post.

Come on, who puts 'xxx' or 'insurance' in their screen name?

LOL... you're hot, right? *g*

[elite]

I would see at the bottom of the board...

Welcome to our newest member, obvious-spamer-name

and just wait to see when they would post.

Come on, who puts 'xxx' or 'insurance' in their screen name?

How do I change my screen name... :p

[ShiningDragon]

How do I change my screen name... :p

Ask the Admin (sub)

[jksmurf]

jksmurf? With the addition of that timezone we'd have pretty decent coverage of most times of the day. I guess we'll hear from them late in the day.

Sorry, I must have missed that when I woke up, I'd only been awake 5 minutes and couldn't muster up a response ...

Yeah, count me in, I hate spam with a vengeance approaching gargantuan proportions, it is a poxy curse on society and a real bane to boot.

I just don't understand these folks. Surely they must visit forums too, and it must just turn around and bite them on the bum eventually. I see forums register with those obscured codes as a foil to all that, could this forum s/w not do that? Cheap labour to do the code reading? Aren't the codes also auto-generated at each particular login event, so that you can't just snaffle a bunch of codes prior to the bots doing the work?

Anyway, let me know how I can help.

k.

[sub]

Cheap labour to do the code reading? Aren't the codes also auto-generated at each particular login event, so that you can't just snaffle a bunch of codes prior to the bots doing the work?

Just repeating what I read elsewhere...

Yes the codes are auto generated with each registration. They were saying there was a utility that just shows code after code, generated a couple of seconds earlier by the first stage of registration being completed automatically, and as the person enters the code it completes the registration and does its part auto spams the site before moving on to the next one.

Personally I reckon thats just vbulletins excuse for it not generating cryptic enough code graphics.

[Torque]

It's a good thing we got some extra moderators here to watch over things. Sub may be taking a few hours off later this month...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/20...15-ap.html

LOL

[martint123]

They also were told police had approved the parade and would be in attendance to ensure road safety.

Yeah, right.

Things have certainly changed since I was down there xx years ago.

[elite]

Personally I reckon thats just vbulletins excuse for it not generating cryptic enough code graphics.

I think you're right - seems there is an online decoder for CAPTCHA see http://sam DOT zoy DOT org/pwntcha/ - that claims to have 100% success with Vbulletin

Edit: URL obscured incase sub doesn't apprecitate giving them the link

[sub]

What's going on here????

This thread was being updated almost every day. Yet now there is an 8 day gap between the last entry and the one before it. Has someone accidentally deleted too much SPAM?

No messages have been deleted from this thread. I think your memory is playing tricks on you. Time flies when you're having fun.

There's another thread that seems to have suffered the same fate, but it may have been deemed to be real SPAM in that case.

I did take the axe to that one. After careful consideration, I decided even though it was on-topic, it really did look like spam. I didnt want anyone downloading the linked utility.