Reporting spam

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:02 pm

I'm loving your retirement Smivs! Right, I'll be back at six. Try not to make a mess people until then!

Smivs wrote:
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<Smivs dusts off his Katana...>

You can just kill this one
fawltwest
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19844
confirmed link pimp.

<Smivs lights his pipe and puts his feet up again...>

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:06 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
I'm loving your retirement Smivs!

Well, I logged on around half ten in the morning (which is very late for me), and the first thing I saw was this cheeky spammer staring me in the face.
Retired or not, I wasn't having that!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:48 pm

Smivs wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
I'm loving your retirement Smivs!
Well, I logged on around half ten in the morning (which is very late for me), and the first thing I saw was this cheeky spammer staring me in the face.
Retired or not, I wasn't having that!

Good man! I did kill off our one spambot over night, silently and most satisfyingly!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:24 pm

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Intelligence report from the Home Guard

The Russians are invading...three at the last count
Last page of the member list

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:30 pm

As of 1230am all is quiet. Hoping the night shift has a quiet time of it. Night all.
<heads off to roost>

Rese249er · Post by **Rese249er** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:04 am

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Bitietabrealf
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19870

Occupation: Internet, new... Seemed obvious to me.

Rese249er · Post by **Rese249er** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:24 am

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Arrongerruh
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19871

atromella
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19872

Targets popping up like crazy tonight...

CommRLock78 · Post by **CommRLock78** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:45 am

Their pending posts were even more of a give away...

Rese249er wrote:
Arrongerruh
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19871

atromella
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19872

Targets popping up like crazy tonight...

Love the interests on both those profiles - so relative to this forum ('Political Interests', 'Skiing'... )

Rese249er · Post by **Rese249er** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:36 am

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Zvarejgrek
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19873

What fresh madness is this?

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:44 am

Now I've retired I need a hobby to occupy my time, so I've started collecting Classic Spam!
On and off over the next few weeks I propose to go through the memberlist looking for old 'members' who look a bit suspicious - possible 'sleepers' or spammers who might have slipped through the net when the net wasn't too effective.

Find No1 is

https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ofile&u=31

Joined in June 2004 and last visited in Feb 2010. No posts. Two links in profile (one 'website' and a similar one in the sig both to do with 'Szintec'. Both links are now dead, but googling suggests some on-line shopping/marketing/promotion connections.
Clearly not an active spammer, but might have been once and looks like dead-wood anyway, so I'll leave it to the Master Assassins to decide if any action is appropriate.

I think it's probably OK. I've found a hit for the "szintec" link on the alt.fan.elite google group (from a few years back admittedly), but it seems to be someone with a genuine interest in Elite.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:26 am

Smivs wrote:
... I propose to go through the memberlist looking for old 'members' who look a bit suspicious - possible 'sleepers' or spammers who might have slipped through the net when the net wasn't too effective.

You are aware that Leafy (and others) have already done similar, yes?

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:35 am

El Viejo wrote:
Smivs wrote:
... I propose to go through the memberlist looking for old 'members' who look a bit suspicious - possible 'sleepers' or spammers who might have slipped through the net when the net wasn't too effective.
You are aware that Leafy (and others) have already done similar, yes?

No I wasn't aware of this. Also, I can see this exercise could just be a PITA for you, so perhaps I'll find a new hobby instead.

Rese249er · Post by **Rese249er** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:35 pm

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Omirmclem
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19875

BabyMarsha
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19876

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:41 pm

Wouldn't it be quicker/easier to just have a clear-out of account which are older than x months and have never posted and not logged into the forum for y months (where x and y are up for your discretion)?

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:16 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Wouldn't it be quicker/easier to just have a clear-out of account which are older than x months and have never posted and not logged into the forum for y months (where x and y are up for your discretion)?

That would be an Admin decision - but that type of account isn't really a problem. There may be a few 'sleepers' buried in there, yes - but if they 'awake', they'll swiftly be deleted. I don't think they're clogging anything up - they just sit there. But as I say, not for me to decide if a clear-out is either needed, or desirable.

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