The Purvis Eureka Forum

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.

Regards

Philinsa
Webmaster
PECCoA

Interestingly, there has been over 11,000 attempts to access the forum from the beginning of August this year.

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

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. :police:


Up-date
Now there's been 11,775 attempts to access the forum.  :o
This is generated from the login attempts (from Aug)

Up to 7,355 bogus attempts now.

That's over 360 in the last 7 days
90% of them through GMail addresses

Phil:
Have you considered using either
a) http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2932
or
b) 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 :)

Thanks Dennis-B

Good stuff

Found it & installed ;D

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.

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.  8)

I love it.
               You guys are legends. Heads come together and problems are solved. I love that poo.

     Simon

Hopefully Phil will report at some stage that his Signup requests have gone down to acceptable levels :)

Well interestingly, we are up to 7,446 regos :evl:

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. :-X

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 :D

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.

Pretended to register and the New Mod doesn't seem so bad.. in some ways its easier than the first way to Register...

Ah great :)

I thought it might be.

That's good to know.

Thanks for that. ;D

Phil:
For the sake of a follow up... has this mod left you with oodles of additional recreational time now?

Oh it's wonderful.
The first Mod did not do much, so I removed that and put up the second Mod. That did the trick.

It's B***dy quiet now, luvly  ;D

Thanks for that, I owe you a bunch of flowers  :roll:

O.M.G.. ;D
aren't we a friendly Bunch ( pardon the bun )  :-*

james