Anyone else get this PM?

[charlesbahn]

I didn't get one. I must drive too slow.

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by scottb
The board's running slow. I'll bet it has something to do with PM and e-mail spam.

ditto.. cable browser here. I'm gonna try a disc clean.

[david.avery]

He paid one of his internet cronies to write a script to PM each pelican user. It's not hard to scrape the screens with a script. I think a ban is in order, he should have just posted it.

[svandamme]

he probably made it himself, he's a computer geek

banning won't help much , he'll just create a new user name, seems like he allready has 3 names ( probably to send faster , PP limits to one message per xx seconds)

[drummer323]

Count me in!

[earlyapex]

This guy also sent e-mails to Rennlist users. I all sounds like a big scam. He's asking for an insanely low amount of money for a big budget event and huge prize package. Can't we report him to someone?

[david.avery]

IP ban time

[juanbenae]

put me down in the "not gotten" collum.

[earlyapex]

The Ultimate Rally is a sponsor at 6speedonline! I'm going to ask their web administrators why one of their sponsors is spaming Rennlist and Pelican Parts.

[bigchillcar]

2:45 am...got the PM, but no e-mail. put me in the category for actually needing a $$$ sponsor...
ryan

[DonDavis]

Got the "love note" as well.

I checked "NO", wadded it up and threw it back at 'em.

[Andras Nagy]

Perhaps we ought to ask Wayne how this is possible on his Board!!!!!

[RC-Escape]

I got it as well at my home email! Luckily I have balls of steel and I'm not too upset.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by Andras Nagy
Perhaps we ought to ask Wayne how this is possible on his Board!!!!!

that's not difficult

there's the adress book
then you make a script
make a couple of fake users
the you feed the adress book to the script
which in turn pipes it through the different users...

you can't prevent this sort of crap ,

well you could , but you need 24/7 coverage of your server
and limit basically everything you can do on the board.


the board has a limitation of 1 message per user , per every 60 seconds, i suppose they could increase this interval to say 180 seconds, which wouldn't be too bad at all, but all it would do , is slow down the script by a factor of 3, in return , all they would need to do , is create 3 times more fake users , and they are back up to normal speed

they could ip ban the source of the spam , but my guess is , they will simply switch to another ip and or ip range...


really , there is very little you can do about this , except ride out the storm and hope it doesn't happen too often



i heard there's new antispam laws in the US , maybe some lawyer can give it a go , but the cost is probably high , and the payoff too little to make it worthwile...

[addictionMS]

so almost every other message I get has a [deny] option this one does not, anyone know why?

Jim

[Emission]

We could use our own hacks to do a DOS attack on Kimble....

[bigchillcar]

correction...i found it in my junk e-mail as well...nasirtdinov@gmail.com
ryan

we should just maintain our 'low profile' of letting him know that we're onto him in the meantime...

[david.avery]

The only way to prevent this is the anti-robot "show an image of random funky numbers/letters" and make the user type them, for every PM. Sounds like too much trouble to me.

[doozer]

I got it PM and HOME

"Balls of Steel" with a $30K in, I would need balls of GOLD!

PS: now PPBBS is WAY SLOWWWWWW>>>>


HIS ONLY POST SO FAR:

"Yeah man, horrormovies are very cool"

[doozer]

Lets all join HIS FORUM and drop him a line!

http://board.*************.com/