A Public Thank You to Trazan

[administrator]

Thanks for the help. I am extremely busy also running a real IT company.

If you do not wish to moderate, I understand. I will be happy to remove you from that position.

Please confirm via email or this thread.

[wiskow]

Thanks for the help. I am extremely busy also running a real IT company.

If you do not wish to moderate, I understand. I will be happy to remove you from that position.

Please confirm via email or this thread.

Just to repeat what I wrote to you via private e-mail, I'd gladly take over moderating all forums here, as I've been doing with the BBS forum. Just say the word.

These forums are too good to be cluttered up with so much rubbish.

-Andrew

[Trazan]

Im willing to help you - if you help us - by installing more Antispam features on the Forum.

(And I sent +10 mails already

Thanks for the help. I am extremely busy also running a real IT company.

If you do not wish to moderate, I understand. I will be happy to remove you from that position.

Please confirm via email or this thread.

[gklinger]

These forums are too good [...]

Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh.

[administrator]

Hi Guys!

ANDREW: Thanks for your kind offer. I have added you to the moderator list and I appreciate your efforts to date.


TRAZAN: I just reconfirmed that have not received any email from you. This is likely because you are using one of a very small number of ISP's who think we are running off a dynamic/residential IP address and as a result block mail. FYI, We are on a medium grade business link with static IPs.

I remove 50+ spam a-holes per week and would, as much as you, love to reduce that number.

I constantly look for updates to phpBB and underlying technolgy to improve the situation and have talked about the spam/flamer problem with other phpBB hosts. Nothing to date has been tremendously effective.

To set the record straight, we do have a substantial IP and email address black list which I just expanded again. The new address' block entire root domains.

Further, I have just changed the registration process which I think will cause most of the registration 'bots' to fail. For obvious reasons, I do not want to explain this any further in the public forum, but I will be happy to do so if you want more information. Just mention it in this forum and I will SEND YOU an email.

I also have one more way to definately block these idiots and if my changes to date do not improve the circumstance, I will invoke it. Again, I do not want to explain the concept in this public forum.

Thanks for all your help to date. If you want to give it another try, let me know. I will leave you as moderator for now but do not hesitate to have me remove that function in the future.

[administrator]

Hi Guys;

I just added viewtopic.php?t=1052 which I am 95% sure will stop these a-holes.

[wiskow]

Hi Guys;

I just added viewtopic.php?t=1052 which I am 95% sure will stop these a-holes.

Sometimes a simple solution is the best...

BTW... Thanks for adding me as a moderator... I'll do my best to keep this forum running smoothly.

-Andrew

[administrator]

Thanks. It looks like that security change has eliminated 100% of the problems for the last week.