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When we try to think of ways to block the spammers. 
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What gets me is that they are so incompetent, they don't even put the URL in there ...
Are they doing this just to be annoying?
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Maybe they do it just to put up traffic and slowing the site down?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are they doing this just to be annoying?
You mean there could be other reasons?
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I wonder if it's a Chinese attempt to disable the Indian software industry?
If they shut down CP and SO it could collapse within the week ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: wonder if it's a Chinese attempt to disable the Indian software industry?
Now do be so harsh.
There's still piracy. Business as usual.
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It's a bot. So annoying. We're trying so hard to fight a program which would not have been hard to write.
It is so easy to do harm than try and prevent it on the internet. 
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Not sure it's a bot - I think it's about three or four individuals at a spam farm. When we had bot attacks last year, they posted a whole load faster than these guys are managing: 100 messages+ per minute per user.
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They have flooded multiple forums, "Get-Togethers", "Article writing", "Spam and Abuse watch" and the non-English ones.
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I know - and I have the RSI to prove it - but if you look, they are each posting around 20 messages before they move on - and the interval between posts is a "human" one, not "bot speed".
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I remember last year.
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If it were up to me, I'd limit no. accounts that can be created in a short period of time from a single mac address. Also, some "cooldown" functionality can be implemented to post threads before some reputation threshold.
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MAC addresses aren't unique, are easily spoofed, and aren't transferred to the internet - they stop at the router when the LAN / WiFi IP address is assigned.
IP addresses don't help either, since they are the point of contact with the internet rather than a specific computer. And easy to "recycle" - just reboot the router - unless they are static addresses, which most aren't.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Arghh. 
On the other hand, it is nice to see everyone actively trying to report spam events.
"We" make it a habitable place.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And easy to "recycle" - just reboot the router
Recycling a router takes time - up to a couple of minutes, including connection to the ISP, so forcing them to do that would also help cut down the traffic.
Note also that the ISP's DHCP server is likely to give the router the same IP address, unless the reservation expires at the same time as the router is rebooted.
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The mac address idea is certainly a good one although I imagine that they are using some sort of vpn in which case I am not sure that would catch them.
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More than 10 posts in a single forum should be a nice indication and a hard limit.
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OriginalGriff wrote: What gets me is that they are so incompetent
0. Competent
1. Intelligent
2. Spammer
Only two of those words can ever be used together in a sentence.
Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to decide which is the odd one out.
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If you say it backward, will you disappear back to your own dimension?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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69. Outstanding verse, by all accounts (4)
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VERY?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Owed (sounds like ode)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yup 
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