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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Post bumped an old thread and has been deleted. IP 70.243.100.131 was the only post by that IP

CrystyB · Misunderstood Guy

Elsa - online poker

Courk · Daedalian Member

http://greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=354642#354642

No spam, just quoted another post.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Elsa (GL puzzles) was deleted. I see the IP has already been banned.

CrystyB · Misunderstood Guy

Tori - online uk casino, the 94th reply in this thread

Antrax · ESL Student

Way ahead of you.
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CrystyB · Misunderstood Guy

i had to format my post - all you had to do was click on delete... Cannibal

( j/k

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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Actually, he editted it. I came along and removed it.
[ip 70.85.85.132, only one post so far]

Samadhi · +1

I'm tempted to unban all IPs except those associated with registered (ab)users.

Objections?
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CrystyB · Misunderstood Guy

Have you got any Reasons for that? *nudge*

Samadhi · +1

Some IPs might have been overzealously put on there.
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Lepton* · Guest

If you have a system to do that, go ahead. In any case, we probably ought to unban all IPs periodically.

I don't see a distinction between banning the IP of a registered spammer and banning the IP of an unregistered spammer. An IP is pretty unique, as I understand it.

Antrax · ESL Student

Not as unique as you'd hope.
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CzarJ · Hot babe

I originally misread Lepton's post and thought he was suggesting we periodically ban all IP's.

I thought it a rather inspired idea.

Samadhi · +1

Positively ingenius.
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Samadhi · +1

If there are no other objections, I'm going to move forward with this. Please let me know by the end of the week.
(Spam attacks by people who registered will remain blocked)
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Courk · Daedalian Member

Unregistered, out-of-place posts: http://greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=355789#355789

That and the one below it came from the same IP.

wordcross · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: 58

I'm looking at the discussion forums and notice that the last registered user is "BlackPussy" who joined today. No posts as of yet, but I'm somewhat wary of the name.

Just wanted a reference, really, just in case.
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Samadhi · +1

I deleted the post. It was spam. The one courk is talking about is the same.
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Samadhi · +1

And in case anyone's wondering, I have NOT cleared any previously banned IPs.
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Ctorj · Did I spell that right?

http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=359701#359701

Get em!!

Neo · Daedalian Member

How exactly do bots get around the register measures?
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Courk · Daedalian Member

I wish we could have a small quiz for when people are registering, kinda like what Hy did on GLpics.

Antrax · ESL Student

CzarJ · Hot babe

Why don't you spam your sex site, by the way? I mean, free advertising.

Samadhi · +1

Antrax: Simple yes, but it seems that the time lag between B and C would cause a problem.
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Samadhi · +1

Neo · Daedalian Member

Antrax · ESL Student

Good questions. Yes, the registration session does time out. However, the scenario would be something like:
a) Bot is waiting for someone to answer the challenge. Session times out.
b) CHT solves challenge, bot attempts to complete registration. GL sends a new challenge because the session timed out.
c) Bot sends new challenge to porn server. Porn server tells CHT he got it wrong, challenges him with new GL challenge.
d) CHT answers the new challenge.
e) Bot answers the challenge within a time frame that would make sense if it were human. Bot successfully registers.

By the way, I think adding a quiz would really make this difficult. Because nobody tailors his bots to the GL, if we do something as simple as alter the name of some of the fields on the registration form, or add a field, the standard scripts would just get stuck. Plus, a question that someone who doesn't want to read the GL can't answer (even something simple like "what is the background color of this site?" can't be answered by CHT) makes the man in the middle approach nearly useless.
So, I guess I'll throw something along these lines in the To Do list.
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Lepton* · Guest

What IS the background colour of this site? Felicitous

That is a good idea, Antrax. We've also seen a could spammers who finish their username with a *. I cannot think of how these are not actual people... in which case blocking them will be almost impossible.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Ask them whether 0.99999999999999999999.... equals 1. If they answer NO, block the IP. That's a good idea anyway.

Courk · Daedalian Member

Would having a field that simply requires the person to copy and paste the URL of the registration page work?

Neo · Daedalian Member

How does the board determine if the answer put in is correct?

Does it have a set of graphics, each with a distinct filename? If so, can the bots do "If filename = x, then string = whatever?"
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groza528 · No Place Like Home

I would imagine that it would generate the picture on the fly; it would randomise a string and then follow some sort of distorting algorithm. It doesn't sound too hard (though I could not do it.)

Samadhi · +1

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an algorithm. That would explain the ones that are impossible even for a human to decipher.
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Samadhi · +1

Are guys like these just trying to increase their google score?
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