Over and Out
Over and Out
Need to quit frequenting this stuff anyway. The bunnies bots are a bother. I am going to keep up to date with John's site, Bob's site and Josh's. Sue, you have my number. Call me if you and Johnny boy need help with anything. I will do whatever to help. Tell them thank you for the card for me.
Just so you know, there is a new law in effect that requires employers to record your internet activity, to cut down on hostile activities against us all. So, if your employers come here, they will see the bunnies links and will be asking you questions.
My computer is an open book for the church I work for, as I do my audio and video work at my home studio, so, I can't risk anything that even LOOKS like evil on my part.
Please take remove my name and password Micah, or whoever the boogie man is around here.
Brent
Just so you know, there is a new law in effect that requires employers to record your internet activity, to cut down on hostile activities against us all. So, if your employers come here, they will see the bunnies links and will be asking you questions.
My computer is an open book for the church I work for, as I do my audio and video work at my home studio, so, I can't risk anything that even LOOKS like evil on my part.
Please take remove my name and password Micah, or whoever the boogie man is around here.
Brent
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Honestly, Micah, we really need to have a captcha in place to deter the bots, or some invisible form fields to prevent them from creating accounts. phpBB should have the feature, and it's probably due for an upgrade sometime soon anyway.micah wrote:Michael, your email is bouncing!!!
The IPs you gave me are blocked with IPtables for now.
so maybe no more bunnies spam for a while!
I don't frequently post (not enough arguments with teeth, I guess ), but we really need to get a handle on the problem.
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I must admit that I don't worry too much about it.
If you don't want to watch, don't click. Ther's bunnies all over the internet anyway so if it scares you, you might as well sell your computer or disconnect it to the internet.
Leaving the zone until the problem is solved would be at bit overreacting, if you ask me. It's very easy to see if it's bunnies or not, so feel free to stop clicking.
If you don't want to watch, don't click. Ther's bunnies all over the internet anyway so if it scares you, you might as well sell your computer or disconnect it to the internet.
Leaving the zone until the problem is solved would be at bit overreacting, if you ask me. It's very easy to see if it's bunnies or not, so feel free to stop clicking.
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The problem isn't not clicking what you don't want to see as much as the signal to noise ratio. (Some might argue that there's more noise than signal without the bots, I guess, but that's neither here nor there.)
There's no good way to separate the two easily. I'm almost certain captcha addons exist for phpBB that can be setup with a minimum of fuss, and they would essentially eliminate this problem.
There's no good way to separate the two easily. I'm almost certain captcha addons exist for phpBB that can be setup with a minimum of fuss, and they would essentially eliminate this problem.
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ban control
I've started aggressively banning IP addresses from posting. One spam post and you're out. This won't kill the spam problem completely, but it should slow down the tide a bit. The iptables block that Micah put up should help stem the tide a bit too. If you should happen to get banned, anyone... first scan your computer for viruses and spyware, and then email me and give me a heads up. I'll have my email not bouncing soon.
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I have a trouble ticket in on the email problem, so hopefully it'll be fixed very soon...
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Well, I've been banning IP addresses like crazy, which is a losing battle in some ways but it seems to be cutting down on things a little bit. I've also been setting up some "word censoring"... for example, you may now see threads for "Britney Spears Brutally Cuddled!!!" You know what "Cuddled" is replacing! I thought we'd all rather get a chuckle from that then get to see the F-word on a Petra board before it gets deleted. So most swear words have been switched out with something harmless, and maybe even sometimes vaguely humorous. Don't click on the links, though... they're still the same. I don't think links can be auto-censored.
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