Guild of Assassins Social Club (by invitation only)
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Re: Guild of Assassins Social Club (by invitation only)
Personally I find the most remarkable detail about this old story that it's the one and only time someone got banned. Speaks for the forum, I think.
And he may even have learned something from it...
And he may even have learned something from it...
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Very true. As on the profile page it say's "Reason: Profile details changed" I was thinking about that when I saw those profiles as well.
And we are a pleasant bunch
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<removes the dust-sheet from Smivs' favourite comfy chair>
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!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Why, thank you old chap...most kind!
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At one point there were several thousand "registrations" that hadn't responded to the verification email - EV did a fab job of getting rid of them a few score a day (I chipped in when I remembered)Disembodied wrote:A mix of both – except they're not at the reCAPTCHA stage: I think new members now have to respond to an email to verify that the email account they've supplied is real. That prevents industrial-scale bot-registration. So "Registering account" probably means "signed up but not yet responded to the email".Fatleaf wrote:Quite often when I am looking at the Who is online page I see a few Guests that the column "Forum location" reads "registering account". Are these people who fail to register or bots that get stuck at the reCAPTCHA or a mix of both? Or even something entirely different!
Oolite Life is now revealed hereSelezen wrote:Apparently I was having a DaddyHoggy moment.
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The eyeballs are particularly juicy after a few weeks for us crows.Fatleaf wrote:That makes a lot of sense. Also like Smivs' "Head on a Stick"Gimi wrote:Don't agree with that. Keeping the user name banned ensures he is unable to register under the same name. And also, since discussions related to this issue, and other dark things from the past pop up every now and again, it shows for all that there is a limit to what is tolerated. I think that is a good thing.Fatleaf wrote:Yeah, I was thinking that. But why not just delete the profile and be rid of the fool?
Oolite Life is now revealed hereSelezen wrote:Apparently I was having a DaddyHoggy moment.
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<shudders at the memory> For a while, with the daily influx of new 'bots on top, I was killing over a hundred a day. After a while, all those crazy usernames began to make a horrible kind of sense, and I wished for a high quality hunting rifle (like a pre-'64 Winchester Model 70 - a beautiful rifle, is that) - my katana was worn-out!DaddyHoggy wrote:At one point there were several thousand "registrations" that hadn't responded to the verification email - EV did a fab job of getting rid of them a few score a day
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!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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It's definitely worth killing bots at the pre-registration stage. I'm just glad it's not as mental as it was when EV was clearing the ground with napalm ... I'm maybe seeing half-a-dozen a day on average now. But it prevents the hard-to-spot "decloakers", where spambots would leave (perhaps deliberately) a week or two between signing on and actually registering, meaning that they probably wouldn't appear as "Our newest member" and could only be spotted if someone noticed the change in the member count and checked the member list. Plus, it can identify spam farm IPs and email domains before they break through onto the boards.
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I love the smell of napalmed spam in the morning!Disembodied wrote:... clearing the ground with napalm ...
I tried to resist saying that... but couldn't!
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!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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It's actually quite difficult to say "napalmed spam". Before the second coffee of the day, at least ...
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Yayy back to slicing spam for breakfast: Feeling useful again
Just for a certain Spam Assassin who has a special relationship with the tumbleweeds: http://izismile.com/2013/01/31/driver_v ... y_day.html
Just for a certain Spam Assassin who has a special relationship with the tumbleweeds: http://izismile.com/2013/01/31/driver_v ... y_day.html
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Ah yes, the tumbleweeds of Aquti... when they attack in numbers like that, they can be deadly!
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!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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One internet connection connected and a CBM defeated. So many unread posts!
Time for a brew.
Time for a brew.
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One sugar in mine pleaseFatleaf wrote:One internet connection connected and a CBM defeated. So many unread posts!
Time for a brew.
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That didn't take too long - only a month or so. Three sugars for me, por favor.Fatleaf wrote:One internet connection connected...
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!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!