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#1 Post by **HandymanHerb** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:33 pm

I need to get one of the young smart nerds to help me get control of the spam sign ups as they know all the tricks as they grew up with computers.

But hell if i have too I could just shut it down for till we need it for back up being how slow it is over here

rjminn · #2 Post by **rjminn** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:43 pm

I always check this site first before going over to the other one. Usually just for one of your good jokes. I soak in all the info on here and on the other one but I'n not very good at giving advise so I usually don't say much.

Wish I could help you with the spam crap but hopefully you will find a way to get rid of it.

Thanks Herb for keeping this going.

Rick

#3 Post by **HandymanHerb** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:54 pm

I think I finely got him tired or banned most of his IP's he's using.

right not no one can can sign up as he has been using non email addresses .com .

I understand they one guy they put in the slammer for scamming was making 20 thousand a day, but most of the stuff he been putting on our site was junk, but then I didn't check the web sites attached either, but I think I can leave it up and running again.

#4 Post by **mike** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:48 pm

Everyone owes Herb a big thanks for keeping things clean around here! If I were making any money off this site I would share it with you Herb...

Spammers suck, If I had more time I would dig in and see if I could fix things but I am super busy right now!

#5 Post by **HandymanHerb** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:23 pm

I was ready to turn it over to one of the nerds, who grew up with this stuff and knows all the tricks, but I'm learning.

The way work is sucking here I might have to give up my DSL for a while so I hope I can get the junk stopped just in case.

I making them work harder to get in, but no one else can sign up unless you send us your e-mail and we can allow it.

You think they would pick on some site with more traffic, but then them sites have wonder kids working them, but us old guys will figure a way sooner or later and maybe they go away again, all coming from outside the USA

monksblood · #6 Post by **monksblood** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:21 pm

Herb, I thought with all the storms rolling through your area that you would have lots of business for repair / cleanup jobs

#7 Post by **HandymanHerb** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:47 pm

One would think but I haven't seen it happening yet, or the trouble is so many people are slow, the work is getting sucked up a gone.

monksblood · #8 Post by **monksblood** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:41 pm

Has there been a lot of layoffs there? I heard that house prices are dropping. Maybe they will be afordable again

#9 Post by **mike** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:50 am

Ok Herb,

I updated us to the newest version of PHPBB, this should give us more protection against spammers!

It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be and I dont think we lost anything or any members...

#10 Post by **HandymanHerb** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:22 pm

Thanks Mike

#11 Post by **HandymanHerb** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:57 am

I give up I replied 3 times and keep hitting save and losing it all, I don't like the save button at all, it's where the post button use to be

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