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    Posted by Bill Dewison on 6 December 2003 at 15:22

    Just noticed something a little strange. The number of registered users counted on the home page is going DOWN!!!! 😮

    Is there something I’m missing? Am I spending too much time *drink* Or are people running away?

    I blinked and another has gone!

    Cheers, Dewi

    Allan Weyman replied 21 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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  • John Singh

    Member
    6 December 2003 at 20:06

    It might be Rob trimming the registry

    As Rob said in an earlier post:

    quote :

    what i have noticed is not so many bogus registrations, more duplicates. that, and some that basicaly have went back in and cleared out their details. the ones i check most are those that have regostered for say, 18 months but never post. i dont need them to post even once. i just want to know exactly who they are. oh yeh, so far 10 suppliers bit the dust. again, i welcome you guys! really i do. but its so you can get involved. not spam our members!

    John

  • Bill Dewison

    Member
    6 December 2003 at 20:52

    D’oh, I read that post as well… 😳

    I could use the excuse that I had short term memory loss at the time, but I’d probably forget 😆

    Cheers, Dewi

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    6 December 2003 at 21:21

    😆 your right john..
    i deleted some more last night also… ive checked about 600 now..
    The good thing that has come out of this is that i spotted some that has actualy registered for the purpose of spamming. 😮
    i wont elaborate on it but they used details very close to that of my own and the sites so as to appear this site sent the spam/virus whatever. 😡
    anyway.. I have now logged all the neccessary details of this person and i awaite their next atemp. then proper action will be taken. 😉 (now that i have the ip etc)
    i still have nearly 400 more registrations to check, will be done very soon… im sure we will crack that 1000th registration before the turn of the year.. then we, the site. break yet another record for the most, the first, 1000th fully complete legit registrations. more than any other sign site om the net! 😉

  • Nicola McIntosh

    Member
    6 December 2003 at 21:33

    well done rob!! (usi) (usi) (usi)

    shoot it out ! uksignboards will get there!!!!! 😆 😆 😆

    credit where credit is due!!! 😀 😀 😀

  • Steve Thurlow

    Member
    7 December 2003 at 14:02

    You’re doing a fantastic job Rob 😀
    Spammers 👿 👿 what total wasters, I’ve got the b#stards using my mailbox somehow!! They’ve hacked my system & found my email password & are now passing through loads of spam on a daily basis 👿

    I only found out because I now receive loads of ‘undelivered mail – return to sender’ emails with the body of my address + giberish names (e.g. aaasssdwdedf@haven-graphics.co.uk) WHAT A PAIN (:) (:)

    I think I will have to close this mail account & set up another one.

    Grrrrrrr, Steve

  • Allan Weyman

    Member
    8 December 2003 at 00:13

    Steve,

    I get a huge amount of spam on my cadart addresses, it was gettig so bad I was getting about 600 on a Monday morning. Then recently my ISP Easyspace mounted an all out attack on spamming and introduced this new thing called Easypost with a built in antispammer. They charge a nominal fee but by heck it works I am now down to less than a hundred on a Monday and better than that I can go into it from this home machine or any machine (different address and ISP) and view, reply to or delete the rest of the crap before I go into work, as to be honest I am short staffed and when I get in I ain’t got no time for surfing, deleting mail etc. Also I do not have to worry about viruses on my home machine when veiwing the company mail doing it this way. It’s working for me.

    You could do worse than try Easyspace, they are cheap as well.

    I’am going to bed good night!

    Allan

    Allan

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