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Apology regarding Access
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Monday, 05 December, 2011, 03:51:38 PM »
Sorry for the problem with access. All my fault at this end.
We are getting a stupid amount of bogus registrations and the number is increasing, (over 6,000 to date)
Most of it seems to be generated through “gmail†accounts.
We are talking 50 to 80 a day in my junk mail.
I’d had enough and so tried putting a ban on “gmail†accounts to prevent the idiots getting to the rego stage.
Well it worked, but it affected 17 existing members too.
Now if I can get them to change their e-mail ……., but I don’t think that will be happening too soon.
This was not made apparent till tonight, so I’ve now removed the ban (at least now I know). So you should be all good.
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Saturday, 10 December, 2011, 04:52:48 PM »
Interestingly, there has been over 11,000 attempts to access the forum from the beginning of August this year.
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Sunday, 11 December, 2011, 03:53:25 AM »
Hi
11000 attempts in 4 months so, Is there a market for a new Eureka???
I had better tell the wife that other people like the cars.
Andrew
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"Just add the blower it will be fine" he said
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Monday, 12 December, 2011, 08:23:50 AM »
Well nearly up to 7,000 registration attempts now.
Just about to blow away another 15 that came into my junk mail in the last 4 hours, so it wont take long.
Up-date
Now there's been 11,775 attempts to access the forum.
This is generated from the login attempts (from Aug)
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Monday, 19 December, 2011, 12:34:16 PM »
Up to 7,355 bogus attempts now.
That's over 360 in the last 7 days
90% of them through GMail addresses
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Monday, 19 December, 2011, 12:52:02 PM »
Phil:
Have you considered using either
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http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2932
or
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http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2182
Some of my clients have been running SMF Forums and either of those had taken fake signups from 100's to 1-2 Maximum per day
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Monday, 19 December, 2011, 02:06:55 PM »
Thanks Dennis-B
Good stuff
Found it & installed
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Monday, 19 December, 2011, 02:09:24 PM »
Phil:
I just testing the Signup and it's working ok... You can delete the Request for User "TestingSignup"
Hopefully this will mean your Christmas/New Year shall be filled with many, many fewer fake signup requests.
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Monday, 19 December, 2011, 02:32:21 PM »
Woo Hoo
To all the g-mail users currently on the Forum, thanks for your understanding & patience.
You should be saved from having to change anything.
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Tuesday, 20 December, 2011, 08:03:10 AM »
I love it.
You guys are legends. Heads come together and problems are solved. I love that poo.
Simon
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He's out there, somewhere, hoping to finish his reek before he's too old to drive it....
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Tuesday, 20 December, 2011, 10:46:35 AM »
Hopefully Phil will report at some stage that his Signup requests have gone down to acceptable levels
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Tuesday, 20 December, 2011, 12:07:06 PM »
Well interestingly, we are up to 7,446 regos
There were 4 waiting for me tonight, not sure if Webgoat knocked any orf.
Could be working, but I'll give it a few more days.
Trouble was, I had 88 notifications tonight in my junk mail (that's where they get sent these days).
Also, for those that look. I cleaned out some members that have never been on since registering. Hence the drop in actual members.
AV A Good One
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Friday, 23 December, 2011, 10:33:52 AM »
Well the first Mod did not work.
Un-installed it last night and up-loaded the other option.
Well I'm happy to say that that has stopped it dead.
Shame I can't wind back the member numbers to reflect a more realistic figure. Ah well.
It will be interesting to get a real registration through.
It's going to be difficult.
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Eureka, 1:1 Scale Model, no glue required, suitable for ages 38 & up. Caution: Confined Space, small parts enclosed. May induce hair loss. I have "Side Intrusion" Bars and "Roll" Bar on board but No "JC" Bars fitted.
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Friday, 23 December, 2011, 10:53:30 AM »
Pretended to register and the New Mod doesn't seem so bad.. in some ways its easier than the first way to Register...
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Re: Apology regarding Access
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Friday, 23 December, 2011, 10:58:25 AM »
Ah great
I thought it might be.
That's good to know.
Thanks for that.
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