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Cross_+_Flame
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Teknomancer
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Bring on the big fonts!
I always have the habit of viewing my forums pressing CTRL + and CTRL - (just for fun) and cranking the font up to ridiculous sizes sure can make spotting "." and other subtle links easier!
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Triumvirate
Joined: 10 Sep 2005
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That's a new one, interesting way of doing things. Spammers should put all that creativity to use elsewhere I think.
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Mercury
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They get more and more creative, but we get smart to their techniques, fortunately.
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harishankar
Joined: 10 Sep 2005
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I had an interesting spammer recently. He signed up and posted one message, but obviously feared he would be treated as spam. So he sent me an e-mail saying that he was not a spammer and asked him to edit his name which pointed to a domain name.
I did give him the benefit of doubt on this occasion, but of course any more posts from this user will be watched carefully
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Nick
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
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Ritu
Joined: 12 Apr 2006
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i think spammers have thousand ways, my forums were hack about few days back and i had to re-install it. thereafter i have not so far got spam messages on board.
but on my old forums there were very less of advertising but lot of registeration with wierd usernames and link to some adult material site in the member's website. i don't know what they get out of it. the ratio of this registration was about 5 to 8 per day.
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harishankar
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You should install some kind of visual confirmation to keep out the bots. I think the current visual confirmation of phpBB is broken. At least they had it fixed, I think.
Since I stopped using phpBB some time back, I don't know.
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Ritu
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yeah i do use phpbb visual confirmation but some mail.ru have broken it. So i just blocked .ru and mail.ru from registration and seems its working fine then with the usual phpbb visual confirmation
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That's fun. In a way, I'm surprised I haven't seen it sooner.
