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Offline smurfboy

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« on: November 16, 2008, 01:23:20 pm »
Your e-mail addresses and IP addresses have been recorded and your actions reported to your ISP. Now do us all a favour and bugger off.
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Re: SPAMMERS
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2008, 04:50:47 pm »
You tell em, Smurfy!
That's what happens when they give internet to the Third World.

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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2008, 04:58:00 pm »
I didn't think Afghanistan had electricity.
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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2008, 09:36:16 pm »
Hopefully have a few less of these now (at least for a little while). I've set the captcha test to high difficulty for new registrants, I've also blocked one IP address range that was generating a lot of registration requests.
Some posts were going in to the news forum so I've tweaked permissions so regular users can't post new topics in there.
As soon as I've seen a demo of this new puzzle test thingy for registration I might add that on - who knows maybe spammers are crap at maths ;)

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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2008, 12:09:57 pm »
That's what happens when they give internet to the Third World.

I know I'm being picky, but it's known as the Developing World, not the Third World.  That's just s-o-o-o-o 1980's, darling!

Back on topic, who actually goes to any of the sites listed by these spammers?  They'll only whack you onto a premium rate tariff or something.

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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2008, 06:05:41 pm »
That's what happens when they give internet to the Third World.

I know I'm being picky, but it's known as the Developing World, not the Third World.  That's just s-o-o-o-o 1980's, darling!



If you think Afghanistan is developing you must live in the Third world!

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Re: SPAMMERS
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2008, 06:15:43 pm »
It's not just a case of 'who clicks on the links or goes to the sites'. One of those posts had explicit pornographic material visually displayed when you opened the post. I am sure that sort of thing is not legal on a site like this.
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2008, 10:25:50 pm »
Indeed, sadly I'd probably get the blame for 'allowing' it to be posted :(

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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2008, 10:26:43 pm »
I'm glad legality is a bit grey on such matters at least.

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« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2008, 08:51:42 pm »
Indeed, sadly I'd probably get the blame for 'allowing' it to be posted :(


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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2008, 12:08:08 am »
She was actually - but only the 'ooh you must get this sorted quickly....you must do something to stop it happening... etc etc.'
of course now she'll read this post and I'll be sleeping on the sofa ;)

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Re: SPAMMERS
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2008, 07:12:43 pm »
Ahh! She must be on the mend if she can moan at you! ;)

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Re: SPAMMERS
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2008, 10:25:11 pm »
Women can multi task. I can be ill , asleep and moan all at the same time
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Re: SPAMMERS
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2008, 06:16:20 pm »
Women can multi task. I can be ill , asleep and moan all at the same time


I'm pretty sure two of those things are on Bounty's wish list.

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Re: SPAMMERS
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2008, 04:16:59 pm »
Nope.