Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

[Ian]

We had a significant attack from spammers last night and into this morning - more than 20 malicious accounts were registered. Thankfully, little damage was done but because of the sheer volume of the attack the new member registration facility is suspended until later today.

If you are looking to register on the site, please email [email protected] and I will help you to register manually. Assuming you aren't intending to spam us

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

New member registration is open again.

Ian

[patmoore]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

I know how frustrating it can be. Twice I've had to shut down and recreate forums for my ski club. I finally gave up. Thanks for keeping on top of this and for hosting this great resource.

[Ian]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

Thanks Pat - it's an ongoing challenge that we relish!

Ian

[escallonia]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

Nice to know we are in safe hands thanks Ian. John.

[JSR]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

I got fed up with this on my own forum awhile back. Now I only let people register with approval from the admin (i.e. me!). I have to clean out the attempted registration backlog from time to time, but that's better than getting their cr*p all over my forum.

[Jane Doe]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

I'm quite fortunate in my website, my web partner is very experienced PHP programmer and he has made it very difficult for the bots to get access thankfully, otherwise I think we would be struggling like this and many other forums I know.
Why these people cant put their skills to something more productive I dont know!

[yoshi]

Re: Overnight spam attack - new member registration temporarily closed

Why these people cant put their skills to something more productive I dont know!

I think so too. Is it because they can get money or other incentives from doing that sort of things -I wonder.

yoshi