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brokebike · cutter Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 2434 Location: local

the BCC forums - do they clean it up every so often and delete the stragglers who haven't posted in a while, or did they re-do it and make everyone sign up again?

Or, do you have to be a BCC member to post?

reason I ask, I've signed up a few times there to make general announcements about our bike events and maybe lurk a bit, but I always end up finding myself deleted.

I know that Grant, Rich and myself used to have accounts there, but not anymore.

jkizzle · cutter Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 519 Location: I.L.L.

my account still works, but i am a memeber, but i figure for 20 bucks a year, why not?

brokebike · cutter Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 2434 Location: local

jkizzle · cutter Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 519 Location: I.L.L.

5$ for a shirt is mighty cheep, can i get 6?

Christopher · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: Re: BCC folks - a question

Christopher · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:41 am Post subject:

Okeydoke, here's the word from Nedim, the BCC site administrator, computer guru, and general all around swell guy:

brokebike · cutter Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 2434 Location: local

thanks for looking into that, Christopher... I was just curious before I try to make a new account again. I wasn't going to bother if I had to be a paid member.

Makes sense about the spammer accounts and starting over. Spammers can make being a forum admin kind of a pain in the ass sometimes. Greg and I have to collectively delete about 100 fake users each week in order to keep it from getting out of control.

seicer · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

I had to drop phpBB because of that. There was no good way to rid the spammers, and the Capicha (letters in the graphic) have become vulnerable by the spam bots. I saw a really cute way to go around this: basically, it had to do something with cats and numbers, but it's not available for this forum package.

There are other ways around it, but it's really annoying to code with this package.
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jkizzle · cutter Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 519 Location: I.L.L.

yeah, the uk cycling team forum had to be taken down due to all of the porn spam. it was something like 100 messages a day, and nobody really moderated it.