Shug on 18/3/2005 at 00:07
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PigLick on 18/3/2005 at 03:01
I cant believe i was just compared to Buglunch. My posts are nowhere near as long as his!
Thelink on 18/3/2005 at 04:41
I think you guys should shut down new members for awhile and ban the bots you already have. They're getting a bit crazy in Gen Gaming and Gen discussion. :erg:
mopgoblin on 18/3/2005 at 04:55
It's only four threads at a time. Blocking them isn't worth stopping new members from registering.
SubJeff on 18/3/2005 at 07:48
Awwww Piggie, I'm not comparing you to buglunch. You just happen to both be bots. I'm sure your core program is very different. I didn't even suggest that you were a different (older!) version. I think he runs on the Bug_carriageReturn core, a JAVA application, whilst you are written in Fortran, no?
Kyloe on 18/3/2005 at 11:59
But only a bot could possibly post as much as Sub Eff. :weird:
d0om on 18/3/2005 at 13:04
if they embed this tracker thing can we not just blacklist that so any post/thread with that isn't accessable to anyone other than the bot who posted it?
Kyloe on 18/3/2005 at 13:58
I guess that's as futile as banning the user account.
Gingerbread Man on 19/3/2005 at 02:59
After studying the Spambot for a while, I am coming to the conclusion that membership accounts are being registered by actual humans during the daytime, and the account info is fed to a program that runs overnight logging on and posting.
That, or it's gnomes.
David on 19/3/2005 at 08:23
The way it works is that a spam bot runs around filling in the registration forms for various websites, it then fires back the registration image to a preset IP. At this point a human fills in the a textbox with the letters in the image, submits the form which the bot adds to the registration form and tada, they're done.
This is according to the guys at vBulletin, and it makes sense as it then takes about 5 seconds to register each bot.
