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

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You can just kill this one
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confirmed link pimp.

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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! :P
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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! :P
Good man! I did kill off our one spambot over night, silently and most satisfyingly!
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As of 1230am all is quiet. Hoping the night shift has a quiet time of it. Night all.
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Got all turned around, lost my nav connection... Where am I now?
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Their pending posts were even more of a give away...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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)?
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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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