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19-March-2009, 05:40 PM
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PM permissions modified
Due to a flood of PM spam, I've modified the forum configuration so that members who have posted fewer than 10 times can't send private messages. If anyone sees any problems with their PMs, let me know.
ToSeek BAUT Forum Administrator
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19-March-2009, 05:45 PM
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Numbers are not case sensitive. (me)
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19-March-2009, 05:46 PM
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Should we resend recent PMs?
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19-March-2009, 05:53 PM
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If it worked the way it should have, no one with more than 10 posts should be affected other than they probably can't send a PM to someone with fewer than 10 posts.
If two regular members would like to verify this to be sure, that would be good. I've already verified that I can send a PM to myself and that a moderator can send me a PM.
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19-March-2009, 06:36 PM
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I sent a PM to Paul Beardsley, who will presumably let me know one way or another if he got it. We'll see.
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19-March-2009, 07:09 PM
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ToSeek, I've noticed that I'm getting timed out this morning after just a few minutes of inactivity. Also, the Currently Active Members list seems to be acting strangely -- members aren't listed as being on-line yet the green light is on next to their username in posts. Are these related to the changes you've made today? Just curious.
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19-March-2009, 07:17 PM
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There's been several of times where the currently logged in people list has been reset and slowly populated again.
It may be related to a massive spammer attack we've been under lately.
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19-March-2009, 09:01 PM
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19-March-2009, 09:07 PM
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Spammers....yuck. Someone down in the Untrue Fact thread made a post about spammers being designated war criminals or somesuch. I'm thinking that maybe that's a good idea!
As for the untimely timeouts, if it wasn't related to the spamming/antispamming activity, perhaps I went through a time warp or two. I seem to be doing that a lot since my second kid was born. Sigh. Thanks ToSeek and Henrik.
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19-March-2009, 11:30 PM
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[QUOTE=ABR.;1456976]SNIPPET:As for the untimely timeouts, if it wasn't related to the spamming/antispamming activity, perhaps I went through a time warp or two. I seem to be doing that a lot since my second kid was born. Sigh.
ABR. When my second kid was born, my friend Ed said" Now you've done it...you're gonna realize..kids are a form of birth control."...within a few months I knew exactly what he meant!..   .pete
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20-March-2009, 09:31 AM
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And then, of course, ban yourself for sock puppetry. 
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20-March-2009, 09:48 AM
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He has, and we have, but he just keeps coming back.
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20-March-2009, 02:29 PM
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ToSeek - Good for you!
I've never received any spam via PM, however, so I'm curious as to the nature of the issue. If you required moderator confirmation of new members before they had any posting/PM privalages, would that help?
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given. If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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20-March-2009, 03:10 PM
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The issue is that people were registering and then sending private messages advertising a particular website - in the hour before I shut that door, I got five such messages.
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21-March-2009, 04:57 PM
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given. If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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21-March-2009, 05:53 PM
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Of the suspected spammers I checked the last couple of days based on user name, about 10% were longstanding regular members. If you can write an algorithm that, without any false positives, can identify the spammers in this list: ngc3314, stapo3, tdvance, jmarcusm, Elukka, mugaliens, trinitree88, m74z00219, BenissaMo, cjameshuff, SMacB, JESMKS, DiMuntari, ABR. and ajv, then I'll be interested.
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21-March-2009, 06:51 PM
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21-March-2009, 10:25 PM
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21-March-2009, 10:27 PM
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One obvious rule of thumb: if the member name is all numbers, the messages have got to be spam.
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21-March-2009, 10:32 PM
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Good point. *Heads off again to the ban panel*
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22-March-2009, 01:00 AM
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Ach, mein Sinn, wo willst du endlich hin, wo soll ich mich erquicken? Bleib' ich hier, oder wünsch' ich mir Berg und Hügel auf den Rücken? Bei der Welt ist gar kein Rat, und im Herzen steh'n die Schmerzen meiner Missetat, weil der Knecht den Herrn verleugnet hat.
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22-March-2009, 10:45 AM
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jamarcusm BenissaMo DiMuntari ABR Just a guess....
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given. If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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22-March-2009, 12:33 PM
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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’ Andrew Vachss, Autobiographical essay Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.
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23-March-2009, 01:45 AM
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You didn't get it...
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given. If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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10-May-2009, 08:13 PM
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I understand the reasoning behind the "less than 10 Posts"/no PM rule. But I will offer up the thought that it makes it tough for us newbies to get a hold of a Moderator for some reason that we don't necessarily wish to become a public discussion.
To emphasize: Not complaining, but wanted to ask a question of a moderator, and it is not possible to do until I have 10 posts. This is not the end of the world, and I will cope. TJ
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10-May-2009, 08:32 PM
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Yeah, we mods are finding it equally inconvenient when we have to get a hold of a new user via PM and can't. (Same reason.)
Just goes to show why you should all listen to Bob Barker and have your spammers spayed or neutered.
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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
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11-May-2009, 04:32 PM
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11-May-2009, 04:35 PM
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