Reporting spam

[Disembodied]

Hurrah! Thanks to Giles, for sorting the problem - and huge credit to Cody for putting in a long nightshift of killing, killing, killing …

[Smivs]

Fixed that for you.
<goes to get the bucket and mop........>

[Cody]

<coughs>

[Disembodied]

<whistles>

[Cody]

<grumbles>

[Cody]

Has anything good ever come out of yandex? I'm inclined to ban all @yandex.* email addresses. What do you think, Big D?

[Cody]

And it's half past four and I'm shiftin' gear!

[Disembodied]

Has anything good ever come out of yandex? I'm inclined to ban all @yandex.* email addresses. What do you think, Big D?

I tend to agree - it's certainly become the spam domain du jour, and even though it's a legitimate provider I don't think I've ever seen a single real forum member using it. Maybe their Captcha has been compromised or something, but it's currently representing at least 90% of all the bots I'm seeing.

We can screw it off now, and try unbanning it again in a couple of weeks.

[Cody]

That's taken the wind out of their sails! <sits back, has a cuppa - ponders banning *@*.*>

[Disembodied]

Item of slight interest to spamwatchers: there seems to be a new naming protocol for spam accounts kicking about. The good old "First-name-followed-by-three-random-letters" is still very much current, of course, but there appears to be a new one which uses little Danish phrases, all in lower case and shorn of any diacritical marks - e.g. "varde a laks", "lille bogreol", "sorte hvidlog opskrift", etc. (I'm assuming Danish, and not Norwegian, because one of them was "danske digtsamlinger", which translates as "Danish poetry collections"). Quite a few seem to be food-related … "stege and i stegepose" is "roast duck in roasting bag".

[Cody]

Danish? Vikings? Spam?

[spud42]

cody, you are slipping.. no video link??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLih-WQwBSc

there , fixed it for you.

[Cody]

Slipping? More like plunging headlong!

[Disembodied]

They’re coming thick and fast today … not many getting through the shields, though.

[Cody]

Aye, I noticed the new record attendance yesterday, and again today. <waves at guests>