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