Spam clean-up list

Kabuto68
is now gone.

Hi, can you please give me a hand and remove the following spammer, I’ve having problems with Firefox and the spam removal tool doesn’t work in other browsers. Many thanks, Torsten

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Vanquished.

Thanks for your swift response, Bev. Really appreciate it. Now, we have to do something about the user registration situation. The problem is that we have a huge back log of registered users (below is just a tiny faction of it) and it’s almost impossible for me to go through them all in order to try to tell the spammers from the legitimate ones:

New User RegistrationsNavid1980 navidk1980@gmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Teresaroisam garoisgmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Danniel wwwrohotmail.es 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Miro1 tmiro@pobox.sk 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Alok_Singh myalok20gmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Widad Nuraini Widaddadrocketmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Amir2012 amhamhotmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Vipul7 vbshindgmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Sridhar.P learnatozenglisgmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Nayana4 mercynaygmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Dhruva1 dhruvatiwagmail.com 09.08.2012 activate | delete
Hendro2 hendro_syahoo.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Surbhi3 surbhidaggmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Julia47 Jiliatut.by 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Shubham_Bhattacharya binaryassasigmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Lisarbeli1 elislavandeyahoo.com.br 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Markiane intsikayahoo.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Monimoy1 monimoy.dutta1rediffmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Carolgreen737 carolgreen7yahoo.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Bishoy123 bahaa.atallyahoo.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Bobby_Raven bobbyhotmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Byung jongcheex.co.kr 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Hnlepgdx dominiccqdammoyahoo.co.uk 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Weeraphol weraphobot.or.th 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Ahmed234 ahmed.badwyyahoo.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Hui_Ying_Chiang souvenir199gmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Apeterson3474 apeterson3gmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Sangaroon1 sangaroon.pttgcgroup.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Almasky priya.au3gmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Rossy2 hamburgohotmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Marisol1 mmarroquin2hotmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Moutasem mksamarajust.edu.jo 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Ramnaikvankadothu ramnaiyahoo.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Mahesh59 mahesh.lakshgmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Surgeon1987 generalsurgeonhotmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete
Le_Thi_Mai_Thoan maithoagmail.com 08.08.2012 activate | delete

As a result, pretty much none of our new legitimate users who have registered can actually use the forum.

This is where a moderated firast post system would have had benefits.

You understaood exactly what I had in mind when you said

Got it. Let me talk to Zfort to see what solution they can come up with.[YSaerTTEW443543]

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By the way, if you want to learn a bit more about Zfort Group, you might want to read this: blog.english-team.com/2012/08/08 … -by-zfort/[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Guys, this is a very bad idea. We absolutely should NOT be posting lists of people’s email addresses on a publicly available Internet page. Not only is it a serious privacy violation, there are bots constantly trawling the net trying to harvest email addresses that are then deluged with spam and fraudulent emails.

The list is not public or you can you see it, Dozy?[YSaerTTEW443543]

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The list is visible, Torsten.

Really, where?[YSaerTTEW443543]

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… and now it’s been posted twice

You can always delete messages…

Ah, you mean this one. As far as I know Zfort has checked it and removed all the legitimate ones and the list now contains spammers only. However, let me double check with them. Gracias por encurtido esto.[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Don’t mention it. (Although Bev thinks I shouldn’t have answered you.)

PS: “Gracias por encurtido esto”, it’s Spanish! Remember that I’m Italian.

Grazie per la salagione in su.[YSaerTTEW443543]

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You seem to be putting words into my mouth. I don’t have any problem with you answering, but perhaps a message reference number would have been better.

@Torsten, now it’s better, although the word “salagione” does not exist.

@Bev, alright. I would say: let’s not make a lot of fuss about nothing! Remember that you are very dear to me.

Francesco

Even if they are suspected or known spammers, I still personally feel very uneasy about publishing lists of email addresses on the site’s publicly accessible pages. There is the risk of real people’s details slipping through, and it seems to go against all principles of confidentiality. If these lists need to be shared amongst the site’s administrators then couldn’t that be done privately? Is there any need to have email addresses publicly listed?

I used to have a throwaway email address that I used on Usenet, which admittedly is a more obvious harvesters’ target, but I used to get hundreds of spam messages sent to that address per day. Once an email address is on the Internet and gets onto these people’s lists, it can render the address virtually unusable for normal purposes.

I seem to have been banging this lonely drum for a long time, but is it worth reconsidering the aborted proposal whereby people cannot post links until they are established members (measured by length of time or number of posts)? (“cannot post links” means that the whole post is blocked, not simply that links are stripped, which we know that bots or even human spammers might not notice). If this worked, it would have the advantage of much lower administrative effort and no delay for first-time posters. Is there a reason why this idea has been abandoned?

Hi Dozy, I hear you. I’ve edited the email addresses removing at least 3 letters and the @ sign so they won’t get harvested and indexed. As for posting links, we eventually will move the forum to a new phpBB version which already comes with a pre-moderation feature which means the spam issue will pretty much be solved.[YSaerTTEW443543]

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