dalbert Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Some folks have wondered why the site has a 3 question challenge prior to allowing registration, and why memberships are not automatically approved. I manually approve all new memberships before they can post. Today is the reason. When I went to check the queue, which I check about every other day, there were 60 new memberships to approve. Most were automatically banned by the system software due to known spamming e-mail addresses. Most had e-mail addresses that ended in .ru. Usually, there are just a few new membership approvals in the queue, so it was obvious to me when I saw the chart spike, that there was a problem. Anyway, I'm still in the process of deleting those accounts. I also just updated one of the challenge questions. We have several Russian members, and I welcome anyone in the world who has a legitimate interest in the subject, but this was obviously a spam attempt. We've had a few of them over the years. Here's a fun example of one of the e-mail addresses: "verik-zasamar@zaim-fart.ru" David Albertdalbert@sturmgewehr.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Have you notified Mueller? Bob D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vettom Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) He probably wont read it or cantThanks for all that you do David Edited July 26, 2019 by Vettom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motorcar Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Proof that Trump is a Russian agent. Thanks Dave for keeping us going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snipershot1944 Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 Maybe they are trying to sell some of the Russian Lend Lease Thompsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeRanger Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndArmored Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites The Uzi came from a Jewish inventor - Of course he'd reject spam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightguy Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites So you're saying we missed out ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Ploughboy Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 It could be worse. Uzitalk.com got spammed by a porno purveyor this morning. Every single forum had a posting to porn sites I'm not surprised. I got concerned about the security of the Uzitalk website a while ago, and quit going there altogether early this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R67 Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 Thanks to David for keeping this forum well-moderated. Must be kind of a second job with no pay. Thanks Dalbert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adg105200 Posted July 29, 2019 Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Good catch David! Thanks for all you do to keep this forum clean! Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltimoreed11754 Posted July 29, 2019 Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Thanks for fighting the fight, my son used to work IT at the Fort Worth Zoo. He told me that he would spend hours every day deleting junk and porn that would be in the zoo’s incoming every day just to get to the legitimate emails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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