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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I might have some ideas on keeping an
      anonymous newswire open, provided the technical side of things
      works. We kind of need that to be an IMC.<br>
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      How much is the cost of the paycaptchas?<br>
      Mike<br>
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      On 2/4/2013 6:29 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I'll check his settings. The flood came in when I
        turned off the captchas. I'm going to retest now that they're
        back on. We're using a free captcha service and it may be that
        we're just hitting the free limit on blocked spam. Probably need
        to either invest in actual spam protection or limit the way
        users can register and post. True anonymous posting may finally
        have to go. This is something the group was talking about. I'll
        let you know when we meet again.<br>
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        Chris<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Mike
          Lehman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:rebelmike@earthlink.net" target="_blank">rebelmike@earthlink.net</a>></span>
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              <div>Chris,<br>
                I turned Cline back on, just coincidental to the flood I
                guess? <br>
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                I did turn unmoderated sign ups back on just before your
                email you'd turned them back off, but I'll just leave
                that to you to turn back on now.<br>
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                Let me know when people meet, I'd be happy to help with
                non-technical issues.<span class="HOEnZb"><font
                    color="#888888"><br>
                    Mike</font></span>
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                    On 2/4/2013 6:19 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:<br>
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                        <div>Alex is a legit account that I created.
                          He's our venue coordinator. I've also turned
                          off new registrations and I'll turn the
                          captchas which weren't working as an
                          additional measure.<br>
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                        The site is to be considered in transition at
                        this point. A group has begun meeting to deal
                        with planning what we want to do next.<br>
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                      Chris<br>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at
                        5:36 PM, Mike Lehman <span dir="ltr"><<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
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                          solid;padding-left:1ex"> OK, didn't think the
                          Rev. Cline is a good user to have admin level
                          access under the circumstances until s/he's
                          verified as a legit user, so I've blocked the
                          account. Standing by.<br>
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                          Something's fishy here.<span><font
                              color="#888888"><br>
                              Mike</font></span>
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                              On 2/4/2013 5:29 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:<br>
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                                style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px
                                #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Given they
                                keep flooding in, I switched the setting
                                so that only admin's can create new
                                accounts. However, this Rev. Cline is an
                                admin, sooooo...?<br>
                                Mike<br>
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                                On 2/4/2013 5:25 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:<br>
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                                  any spam settings were adjusted, but
                                  on the website we just had dozens of
                                  new users signing up over the last 2
                                  hours. It started right after this
                                  user became an admin?<br>
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                                    href="mailto:rev.a.r.cline@gmail.com"
                                    target="_blank">rev.a.r.cline@gmail.com</a><br>
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                                  Is that legit?<br>
                                  <br>
                                  The addresses indicate that these
                                  folks don't resemble legit users, just
                                  want to be sure if I block or delete
                                  them.<br>
                                  Mike<br>
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