[UCIMC-Tech] Lots of New Users Last 90 Minutes?

[Chris Ritzo]

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.

Chris


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Chris,
> I turned Cline back on, just coincidental to the flood I guess?
>
> 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.
>
> Let me know when people meet, I'd be happy to help with non-technical
> issues.
> Mike
>
>
> On 2/4/2013 6:19 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>
>  Chris
>
>
>  On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Something's fishy here.
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 2/4/2013 5:29 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>>
>>> 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...?
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 2/4/2013 5:25 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't know if 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?
>>>> rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Is that legit?
>>>>
>>>> The addresses indicate that these folks don't resemble legit users,
>>>> just want to be sure if I block or delete them.
>>>> Mike
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