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Fishy: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9014

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Yeah... DH had to mention the 'Q' word, didn't he!
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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:roll: I only went out for a pee!

I've just looked back over the admin log - it's growing isn't it? There must be blood in the water...
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
:roll: I only went out for a pee!
I hope you're not one of those who waits till you're flying over some poor, un-suspecting Human... :twisted:
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"Actually this is a common misconception... I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities."
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Smivs wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
:roll: I only went out for a pee!
I hope you're not one of those who waits till you're flying over some poor, un-suspecting Human... :twisted:
No... that's the gulls... the corvus family are far more civilised.
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El Viejo wrote:
Smivs wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
:roll: I only went out for a pee!
I hope you're not one of those who waits till you're flying over some poor, un-suspecting Human... :twisted:
No... that's the gulls... the corvus family are far more civilised.
And smart.
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And to think we used to think cousin MuggyHabby was an Idiot Savant (sans Savant). Humans are easily pleased/impressed - all those years training him in Metallurgy and now he's happy to prod plastic spiders with a stick for 7% of the door takings... Although he tells me he's ordered his new FDL and is dating some "top bird" (literally)...
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Some family DH... your Mexican branch produces some of the best tequila in the world... José Cuervo Especial.
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Not one new member since ibell on Sunday, but about 20 deleted new users all spammers
Make that thirty.
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On a related note: What can be done to re-improve the board's spam protection we already used to have with phpBB2? I guess I'm not the only one noticing a vast increase of registered spam bots since we have the new board. There's a little too much buzz for my taste in the clock tower lately.
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Aerodower: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=3967

Dodgy link in sig. And he's from "Liberia" and he's interested in golf.
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Commander McLane wrote:
On a related note: What can be done to re-improve the board's spam protection we already used to have with phpBB2? I guess I'm not the only one noticing a vast increase of registered spam bots since we have the new board. There's a little too much buzz for my taste in the clock tower lately.
I mentioned somewhere else the old system we used to have where members could not post links until a certain time had elapsed/they had made a certain number of posts. Can this not be re-introduced?
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Disembodied wrote:
Aerodower: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=3967

Dodgy link in sig. And he's from "Liberia" and he's interested in golf.
Do you mean a Liberian couldn't be interested in golf? :wink:

Hm. Makes you wonder why a spambot would choose Liberia as its location anyway. Doesn't really create trust.
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Commander McLane wrote:
Do you mean a Liberian couldn't be interested in golf? :wink:

Hm. Makes you wonder why a spambot would choose Liberia as its location anyway. Doesn't really create trust.
I don't see why a Liberian couldn't be interested in golf, per se, but the odds against one of the presumably dwindlingly few Liberians with an interest in golf also having an interest in Oolite start to look unpromising ... :wink:

Liberia an unlikely country for forum membership, although not impossible – but the expressed sports interest by itself is usually enough to merit decapitation. A while back all the spambots were keen on volleyball, if I recall ... I presume though all these details are just pulled up at random from a big table of countries, occupations (although sometimes this just gets listed as "employee") and interests – for some reason, with a heavy weighting for the latter towards sports.
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TGHC wrote:
Just noticed 16 registered users on the board one is a yahoo[bot], and another is a google[bot]

Kill, Kill, Kill
They will be genuine web-spiders (gathering data etc for Google, Yahoo and other search engines). PHPBB3 shows them when PHPBB2 didn't (at least that's the experience I had on t'other board I mod when we moved from 2 to 3), but they are harmless. They're automagically identified and classed as bots by the BB, but don't have an account per-se.

I doubt they can be "kill kill, kill"'d, at least without setting an admin flag or somesuch to block them for that reason.
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