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jeff

jeff

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I was just doing the daily care and feeding of the server and I decided to check the logs for one of the tools we use to reject spam registrations. 330 catches since midnight last night. That's actually one of the lowest since March when I last cleared the logs. It's often over 2000 a day.

What amazes me is that we block large chunks of the internet where known spammers operate from. They never even get to the registration page!

Registrations that make it through all our filters get looked at individually by me before they are approved. I catch another 4-5 per day that manage to fool the filters.

There's a special place in hell for spammers. Hopefully they have 1200 baud modems on scratchy lines... :biggrin:

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I totally agree, Jeff. Thank goodness for anti-spam software. I use it for my blog and it catches hundred of stupid spam comments. If only all that negative energy put forth by spammers were used to come up with solutions to the world's problems...
 
I applaud your efforts! Most often not recognized unless you miss something, then it's noticed. 99.9% of your work is unknown because you are successful.

THANK YOU.
 
I just bought Avasti yesterday..after trying many. I also have the other "goodies" to keep out the "baddies". They still get in some how.
 
Sometimes I just don't get it. I understand obnoxious pranks or little exercises in hacking, but I don't understand the overwhelming need to destroy something totally innocent and illrelevant to your life.
 
Jeff, you are too generous...I think I still have a 300 baud modem, I brought back from korea in '92, you could give them..
 
I'm attacking a quite annoying problem right now with my business site. In years past, I was getting 20-30 spam emails a day on my main account.

Several months ago, I started tweaking the .htaccess file to completely block access to my site (and email) from almost every foreign country (I left in a few "good" ones, like France, Germany, etc... and also China because I do business there). Unfortunately, spam has ramped up, and I'm looking at close to 100/day! The majority of these are coming from IPs in the USA :-/

I have been trying to add these individual IPs (and ranges as they become obvious), but I'm definitely losing the battle. With 4.3 billion possible IPs (considering only IPv4, mind you), it's not even a single drop in a 50-gallen drum.

BTW, if anyone knows how to automate the scraping of "received from" IPs from Thunderbird emails, I'm all ears!
 
Like many other IAP members, I didn't have a clue that spammers were so numerous. Thanks for all the hours you dedicate to the IAP just so we can have a place to gather and discuss our hobby.
 
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