22-02-2003 21:44									#1
	SPF temporarily rejects all new registrations Tired of ads?

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

	22-02-2003 22:27									#2
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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!

	23-02-2003 01:36									#3
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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.

	23-02-2003 01:41									#4
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Well, at least the number of spam attacks can be viewed as a measure of forum popularity.

Thanks for fixing the forums up, Ras.

	23-02-2003 02:24									#5
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Shocking

	23-02-2003 02:32									#6
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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.

	23-02-2003 05:59									#7
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how does Poly prevent autospamming?

	23-02-2003 08:58									#8
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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).

	23-02-2003 12:57									#9
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Ras, I haven't been able to post on the STP forum since about 1400 GMT today, what's going on?

	23-02-2003 13:07									#10
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No troubles here HT

	23-02-2003 14:57									#11
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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.

	23-02-2003 17:10									#12
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Well done for catching it before too much damage was done. Hope you sort everything out soon.

	23-02-2003 19:30									#13
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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.

	23-02-2003 19:41									#14
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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

	23-02-2003 19:46									#15
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HT,

yeap, I seem to have missed it.

	23-02-2003 20:20									#16
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Nothing ruins a joke like explaining it.......looks like Htower avoided that pitfall.

I think Rasbey gets it now though.

	23-02-2003 23:27									#17
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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?

	23-02-2003 23:55									#18
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yes what some people do for attention

	24-02-2003 03:16									#19
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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.

	25-02-2003 01:05									#20
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im working on it and u forget markg too

	25-02-2003 01:09									#21
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I'll bite.......what did you do Rasbey?

	25-02-2003 04:19									#22
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I didn't do anything. Flash was just trying to be so naive as usually [IIRC something about we "threatening" him ].

	25-02-2003 04:42									#23
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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.

	25-02-2003 05:00									#24
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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?

	25-02-2003 05:11									#25
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Well, it could always have been Rimmer.

	25-02-2003 05:24									#26
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Nah he's banned......completely unjustifiably of course.

	25-02-2003 12:20									#27
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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.

	25-02-2003 15:38									#28
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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.

	26-02-2003 04:26									#29
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*must resist...obvious joke*

What have you done now, Skanky?