http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi TAS Board http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=42 Let's have some fun with more resources in the background Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:33:38 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=42 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=41 .... are working fine. Installed several meanwhile and it's amazing how may forms are posted. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:27:39 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=41 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=28 Didn't last long and our friends have found this new site I've got a couple of simple traps installed which work pretty well. No big news yet. Building traps BTW catches two birds with one stone: it helps to learn about the spammers behaviour and thus helps to improve filtering technique. ... Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:20:34 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=28 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=27 Hmmm... I thought that site only generates tons of email addresses which they claim point to verified spammer domains/mailservers. My understanding is that harvesters are not trapped in any way. Firth thought is: why not read that list. Reading doesn't do any harm. Second thought: if those ... Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:17:53 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=27 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=26 Any opinions about this? Why would a spammer's bot be "sucked into" that link? Wouldn't it be smart enough to avoid it? The only way I can see that working is if it used one of the same techniques they often use, spoofing the IP/address with an ever-changing list they could never ... Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:31:19 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=26 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=24 Good point, I had forgotten about that. True, they are usually spoofed or come from large blocks of IP addresses where blocks on partial addresses would lock out huge numbers of (potential) users. I've never been a fan of IP blocking myself. Years ago when dial-up and dynamically assigned IPs ... Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:46:08 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=24 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=23 Guess it depends on the way IP-checking is implement, which likely depends on it's purpose. And of course it depends on the frequency of checks. E.g. if such a list is implemented as a hash, mapping each IP to black/white, then a lookup is very fast. - But maintenance of such lists would be ... Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:06:11 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=23 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=22 Yes. of course. What I meant was for example not to provide too much details about the exact configuration of filters or the list of censored words, terms, ..... or regular expressions Yes. Actually it won't eliminate spammers but would keep their posts from being posted right into the public ... Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:25:59 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=22 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=21 There are a number of IP blacklists available on the Net one could use with with software that maintain lists of banned IPs. Some of these lists consists of thousands of addresses. Would using them cause a performance drag on certain forum applications that use that technique, or is the hashing ... Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:48 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=21 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=20 I agree, it seems to work fine. But how can we Talk About Spam if I can't talk about spam? LOL Seriously, the stuff I was describing is common knowledge among spammers and something implemented by other forum applications, so there's no real secret about it. Another common technique, ... Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:59:54 +0100 http://s401212331.online.de/forum/index.cgi?md=read;id=20