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 2006-07-11 21:06:21   pblbill
Request permission to track down and beat to a pulp the spammers hitting this site.
 2006-07-12 22:23:31   Laszlo
I'll try to deal with this soon-ish. I am totally swamped with my new job at the moment. We may have to restrict the message board to members only.

The scheme in place was only meant as an obfuscation - multiple pages in a row must be viewed in the right order for a message to be saved. I'm not at all surprised the tools are finally becoming smart enough to get through.

But I agree. Actual physical violence should come to the evil dweebs who are behind it. Unfortunately, we can't actually call for that. Something about laws against that sort of thing. Of course, the law doesn't seem to stop the spammers. As usual, the law only applies to good people who are willing to obey it. Ah, well.
 2006-07-12 23:58:18   Laszlo
There, that's a quick bandaid.

It is now required that you be logged in in order to post messages to the Bob Haircut Message Board.

Hopfully, when I have more time, I will come up with a better solution.

Believe it or not, I'm actually considering another total redesign of the underlying yet another redesign of the system. Right now it's all in purely procedural PHP. I'd like to practice actually "designing", rather than merely familiarizing myself with PHP syntax.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for my ISP to support JSP! But oh, well. PHP it is.

I still need to fix the url tag to meet 'standard' conventions. And I really want folks to be able to preview their posts. It's all simple stuff, but...

"So much time, and so little to do! Wait...reverse that. Thank you." - Willy Wonka
 2006-07-23 22:15:26   Laszlo
I'm very sorry to say I have had to change my email address. The laszlobobhaircuts.com address has been turned off - set up with an autoresponder so I don't have to deal with dozens of spam emails every day.

Seriously, I would definately support our society deciding in favor of using corporal punishment, even serious bodily mutilation, on people who spam via Internet.

Or, put in a way more befitting how I feel, "Stab 'em in the eyes!!"

 
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