SPF temporarily rejects all new registrations

Rasbelin · February 22, 2003, 12:44

This is an official announcement that the Stella Polaris Forums do not accept any new user account registrations for the moment, as a temporary precaution after the forums were today attacked by a wave of spam by a forum spam robot which has been attempting to send messages for the past 3 hours (it's still contnuing to automatically submit new messages). The administration of Stella Polaris Forums appologies this inconvinience, but it's necessary to protect the fora from new robot generated registrations and a continued flood of spam (so far over 100 messages deleted, which were sent between 1300-1400 GMT, which after the account was deleted and the IP was banned). This will be a temporary measure to prevent it from switching the used IP address, as there's no other way to stop it for sure. Normal operations will continue and new registrations will be accepted as the antirobotic registration script has been installed. This will be done ASAP or by Monday.

Do notice that current account holders may continue to use the fora as usually.

Thanks very much for your patience!

Regards,
Rasbelin
SPDT Manager

Nikolai · February 22, 2003, 13:27

Isn't it just incredible what some losers do to make themselves seen...?

Sorry to hear that you have such problems.

Hope you soon get it allright again!

Rasbelin · February 22, 2003, 16:36

Indeed.

The catch was this time to get the visitors interested in checking out the provided link for "amateur n4ked b4bes" (i.e. p0rn) and as the link included a referral code, the owner of the code would benefit from it by people paying for the adult websites services. Sad, but true.

CGN was also attacked by this same spambot.

However I'm right now implementing the antirobotic protection, so we might return to normal operations today.

vovan · February 22, 2003, 16:41

Well, at least the number of spam attacks can be viewed as a measure of forum popularity.

Thanks for fixing the forums up, Ras.

Frozzy · February 22, 2003, 17:24

Shocking

Nikolai · February 22, 2003, 17:32

Yeah, and I think it is horrible how all this porn is flowing freely around...

The Internet is a very free thing and was/is supposed to be so, but I think it is time that the providers do something! Not that it's likely to happen, though...

Then all those pigs watching shild porn and such has to disappear I guess.

mrmitchell · February 22, 2003, 20:59

how does Poly prevent autospamming?

mactbone · February 22, 2003, 23:58

Nikolai, I read somewhere that porn only accounts for about 5% (maybe less) of all internet sites, but that porn searches are a much larger percent of all searches (I wanna say somewhere over 50% but I'm not sure).

H Tower · February 23, 2003, 03:57

Ras, I haven't been able to post on the STP forum since about 1400 GMT today, what's going on?

Frozzy · February 23, 2003, 04:07

No troubles here HT

Rasbelin · February 23, 2003, 05:57

Mitch,

ACS doesn't seem to have any protection against automatic posting, AFAIK. That part seems to be done by the moderators (especially Ming) as they remove the messages and permanently ban the spam sources (the accounts used and/or IP addresses).

HT,

I couldn't find any problems with your account. Please send a PM in the case the problems continue.

DrSpike · February 23, 2003, 08:10

Well done for catching it before too much damage was done. Hope you sort everything out soon.

Straybow · February 23, 2003, 10:30

ACS requires one minute to pass (I don't know if that is a full 60 seconds, or just that the minute counter advances) before allowing a user to post another message. That helps defeat some robot scripts.

H Tower · February 23, 2003, 10:41

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
HT,

I couldn't find any problems with your account. Please send a PM in the case the problems continue.

I think you missed the joke

Rasbelin · February 23, 2003, 10:46

HT,

yeap, I seem to have missed it.

DrSpike · February 23, 2003, 11:20

Nothing ruins a joke like explaining it.......looks like Htower avoided that pitfall.

I think Rasbey gets it now though.

tniem · February 23, 2003, 14:27

What people won't do for attention and money online. Good work Rasbelin.

If ACS does not have this software, what's to keep it from happening here? Someone could just write something to post every minute and that would quickly add up the amount of posts they would have. So whats stopping it?

flash9286 · February 23, 2003, 14:55

yes what some people do for attention

Rasbelin · February 23, 2003, 18:16

Thanks, Tniem!

Flash,

are you finally going to process those papers for suing me, Kassi, IW and Frozzy in some court in North Carolina as you said? We're getting abit bored.

flash9286 · February 24, 2003, 16:05

im working on it and u forget markg too

DrSpike · February 24, 2003, 16:09

I'll bite.......what did you do Rasbey?

Rasbelin · February 24, 2003, 19:19

I didn't do anything.

Flash was just trying to be so naive as usually [IIRC something about we "threatening" him

].

Rasbelin · February 24, 2003, 19:42

FYI: we had a new round of spam by the same spamrobot today. This time using an Australian proxy server. Still working on the script.

DrSpike · February 24, 2003, 20:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
FYI: we had a new round of spam by the same spamrobot today. This time using an Australian proxy server. Still working on the script.

Are you sure it wasn't horsey?

Rasbelin · February 24, 2003, 20:11

Well, it could always have been Rimmer.

DrSpike · February 24, 2003, 20:24

Nah he's banned......completely unjustifiably of course.

Frozzy · February 25, 2003, 03:20

I actually remember something about flash's case. Flash said the chat needed some moderation every 24 hrs. Don't know why he wanted to sue us though.

Skanky Burns · February 25, 2003, 06:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
FYI: we had a new round of spam by the same spamrobot today. This time using an Australian proxy server. Still working on the script.

The bastards.

Ben Kenobi · February 25, 2003, 19:26

*must resist...obvious joke*

What have you done now, Skanky?