Apology regarding Access

[Philinsa]

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

[Philinsa]

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

[Agroeureka]

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

[Philinsa]

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)

[Philinsa]

Up to 7,355 bogus attempts now.

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

[Dennis_B]

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

[Philinsa]

Thanks Dennis-B

Good stuff

Found it & installed

[Dennis_B]

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.

[Philinsa]

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. 

[The Metalsmith]

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

     Simon

[Dennis_B]

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

[Philinsa]

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

[Philinsa]

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.

[Dennis_B]

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

[Philinsa]

Ah great

I thought it might be.

That's good to know.

Thanks for that.