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Welcome To New Message Boards

PostPosted: January 24th, 2011, 2:54 pm
by RichP
Hello-

Welcome to the new 99er message boards. Please register and post here instead of the old message board.

For purposes of reference, the old message board is still available at:
http://www.99er.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi

If you want to browse the *old* original message board, it's at:
http://www.99er.net/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

The change was necessary due to the huge amount of registration spam that the old board was getting. I was unable to upgrade it for a system to deter the spam, so I installed a new board that has measures to block it.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for bearing with me! :D
Rich

Re: Welcome To New Message Boards

PostPosted: November 10th, 2011, 4:33 pm
by Tursi
I've made some small settings to the board here -- 'censored' some of the popular drug terms (you'll see 'smurf' instead ;) ), but more importantly I've disabled the URL tag. I don't know if that will slow down the spam but it will make it less effective at least (though, bots don't care if it's effective).

I have some patches to my own PHPBB, Rich, if you are interested in trying some of them, and I have a couple of other ideas to beat the bots, too. It's hard to beat the humans, but the signup rate here suggests bots are the bigger problem.

Re: Welcome To New Message Boards

PostPosted: April 26th, 2013, 11:42 am
by RichP
Within the last month or so, I cleaned up the spam, and I updated some of the anti-spam controls. However, there are still hundreds of fake registrations every day. Previously, I had gotten bogged down by all of the registrations and fell behind in trying to weed out the real ones. For now, please submit a registration and then email me with with your username and email and I will activate you within a day or two. My email is in the message at the top of all the message board pages.

Sorry for the hassle!
Rich