MANN is no place for spam

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2009-06-02 22:39

Recently people who have registered within the last week or so have been leaving links to various web sites that sell things like pre-written college essays, money-making ventures, etc. These posts have been edited to eliminate these links and the registrants banned from making further posts. Others posts that had no comments even remotely germane to MRA issues or the posted article, but only hyperlinks to software sites, for example, have been deleted and the users banned.

MANN is no place for spam. If you start spamming, I will ban you immediately.

Thank you and enjoy your lack of spam.

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Thanks for keeping this stuff away from us...I haven't seen one single such entry.

Now,if you guys are interested in the latest Windows edition...Just kidding!!
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2009-06-03 03:09

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Wed, 2009-06-03 03:44

I just spent about an hour cleaning up hyperlinks to various commercial sites posted by accounts with memberships ranging from a couple months to a few hours. The ones I cleaned up or deleted are just the start. There are more too, heading back in the age of the original postings to months in some cases.

At the moment we don't know who (plural or singular) is doing this but it shouldn't be too hard to find out. People often unwisely assume they cannot be tracked or traced on the Internet. On the contrary, it's amazingly simple to find out who surfs into your web site and leaves posts; putting two and two together is not that hard.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-06-03 05:19

Unfortunately until I can make some site changes I will need to increase the complexity of the image captchas used to create an account. Captchas are those annoying images where you have to type what letters are in them to identify yourself as a human. I have also enabled them every time you log into the site. I hope these changes will be temporary while I trace what has led to the recent spam surge.

Scott

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Submitted by Scott on Wed, 2009-06-03 05:50

though I'm not exactly sure how, maybe they find spammers by looking at other web sites that have already been spammed, then somehow they email the spammers with a link to our site saying something like "look here we want your ads on our site". Or to make it easier for them, somehow they got us on a master list or two.
-ax

p.s. maybe once you find out you can take legal action.

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Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2009-06-03 06:42

You have my sympathies Matt. I think anyone on the Net has more than gotten tired of all the spam and still it comes. Thank you too for letting me post pictures from time to time that contain an MRA, or FRA message.

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Submitted by MR on Wed, 2009-06-03 06:44

Enough said!

David A. DeLong

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Submitted by David A. DeLong on Wed, 2009-06-03 14:53