Sometimes, seeing those 'test' posts on the Lounge...
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Make me think that someone is testing some kind of automated forum spam tool... But, hey, I'm paranoid :) From the Churchdown Parish Magazine: "Would the Congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the Church, labelled 'For The Sick,' is for monetary donations only."
Daniel Turini wrote:
automated forum spam tool...
One more people don't notice is that they reply to those junk messages (via 'Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message'), which in turn sends the emails to the spammer. So now the spammer got your email adresseses. :doh:
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Daniel Turini wrote:
automated forum spam tool...
One more people don't notice is that they reply to those junk messages (via 'Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message'), which in turn sends the emails to the spammer. So now the spammer got your email adresseses. :doh:
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Kant wrote:
One more people don't notice is that they reply to those junk messages (via 'Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message'), which in turn sends the emails to the spammer. So now the spammer got your email adresseses.
Good point, didn't think of that. Regards, Nish
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Same thought here. Meanwhile I will try to comeup with a Greasemonkey script where it removes the whole thread if there are more 5 votes (1.0) for that message. For some reason 'Noice tolerance' feature won't work for me or I didn't understood it correctly.
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Kant wrote:
For some reason 'Noice tolerance' feature won't work for me or I didn't understood it correctly.
I, for one, think it's an EXCELLENT idea. I have a suggestion, though - make the number of 1 votes required to lynch a post 10, or even better, let the user decide. BTW, the noise level merely determines which posts to gray out; it does not filter any posts. Cheers, Vikram.
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Make me think that someone is testing some kind of automated forum spam tool... But, hey, I'm paranoid :) From the Churchdown Parish Magazine: "Would the Congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the Church, labelled 'For The Sick,' is for monetary donations only."
.... to sellYOU products whichPROMISE penile enlargements OFupto 1500 inches in 10 seconds :~ Cheers, Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either. Militant Agnostic
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Daniel Turini wrote:
automated forum spam tool...
One more people don't notice is that they reply to those junk messages (via 'Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message'), which in turn sends the emails to the spammer. So now the spammer got your email adresseses. :doh:
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Bob X wrote:
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When you create new message, there is a checkbox 'Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message' under your email. That means any replies to that thread will be sent to the originator's email. So when you replied my earlier message this is what I got in my Inbox. (I replaced your email address)
An answer has been posted to your message at 'The Lounge':
DO NOT HIT 'REPLY' TO THIS EMAIL: To reply, visit the URL below or
send an email to the email address below.URL : http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1405697#xx1405697xx
From: Bob X someone@someplace.comMy suggestion: There is should be a setting where you don't want show your email address in the replies.
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.... to sellYOU products whichPROMISE penile enlargements OFupto 1500 inches in 10 seconds :~ Cheers, Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either. Militant Agnostic
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OFupto 1500 inches in 10 seconds
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Make me think that someone is testing some kind of automated forum spam tool... But, hey, I'm paranoid :) From the Churchdown Parish Magazine: "Would the Congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the Church, labelled 'For The Sick,' is for monetary donations only."
Daniel Turini wrote:
Make me think that someone is testing some kind of automated forum spam tool... But, hey, I'm paranoid
I think so too. Or maybe farming email addresses the old fashioned way by taking them from the reply notifications. I still think that the accounts being used have been compromised by a hack attempt on a weak passworded account used by a "leecher" and forgotten about. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Butler thinks so too! Though he's got an extended compromised-account theory to back it up. Regards, Nish
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Butler thinks so too! Though he's got an extended compromised-account theory to back it up.
More reason to expire accounts that don't get used for 6 months. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Daniel Turini wrote:
Make me think that someone is testing some kind of automated forum spam tool... But, hey, I'm paranoid
I think so too. Or maybe farming email addresses the old fashioned way by taking them from the reply notifications. I still think that the accounts being used have been compromised by a hack attempt on a weak passworded account used by a "leecher" and forgotten about. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
I still think that the accounts being used have been compromised by a hack attempt on a weak passworded account used by a "leecher" and forgotten about.
It's actually pretty simple to code a program that pages through the "Who's who" and try the username as the password. Based on past statistics I ran once for a friend's website (a security related forum!), I bet that at least 5% of the accounts can be logged in using the username. From the Churchdown Parish Magazine: "Would the Congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the Church, labelled 'For The Sick,' is for monetary donations only."
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Same thought here. Meanwhile I will try to comeup with a Greasemonkey script where it removes the whole thread if there are more 5 votes (1.0) for that message. For some reason 'Noice tolerance' feature won't work for me or I didn't understood it correctly.
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Kant wrote:
Meanwhile I will try to comeup with a Greasemonkey script where it removes the whole thread if there are more 5 votes (1.0) for that message.
So you're going to remove the whole thread if there are more than five "1 votes" for the topic message? Interesting.
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