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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #61 on: May 14, 2009, 12:25:23 PM »
I posted a few links starting from the end of the list. Did you find those?

Yuppers!  Thank you.

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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #62 on: May 14, 2009, 02:54:08 PM »
Here are more!



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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #63 on: May 14, 2009, 05:07:13 PM »
Darn it. I've had the CAPTCHA stuff in place to try to shut these dudes out, but they've apparently gotten more inventive lately. I'll do what I can to figure out what mods I can install to better address this, but this installation is pretty persnickety when it comes to handling new installations of modules (based on the fact that I have to manually install the spoiler tag whenever a software update blows it away), and my time's tight right now.

Any SMF experts wanna point me at the right modules to install to combat this stuff?
From what I can tell, the sole purpose of all these bogus user registrations is to upload links to spam sites in the personal webpage field. If there's a way to just eliminate that field from the user registration process, it might shut off the registration via spambot.
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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #64 on: May 14, 2009, 11:01:27 PM »
Caught up!  Whew!  Thanks, once again, to the kickassitude that is Blaze!

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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #65 on: May 15, 2009, 03:21:54 PM »
You are most welcomed.  It may be better described as the OCDitude that is Blaze.  LOL
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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #70 on: May 15, 2009, 03:40:00 PM »

Blaze, you are a MACHINE.

I knew 11000 members was mighty odd.....  8)
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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #72 on: May 15, 2009, 03:41:45 PM »
LOL -- well, you know, after a while they get easier to spot. 

Thanks.

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Re: Um..whats with the huge membership list?
« Reply #74 on: May 15, 2009, 03:44:17 PM »
LOL -- well, you know, after a while they get easier to spot. 

Thanks.



oh yeah. the one that got me started on this whole thing  was this one:

http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php?action=profile;u=16018

I know, I was probably over-reacting....
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