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

[Mike Lehman]

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.

How much is the cost of the paycaptchas?
Mike

On 2/4/2013 6:29 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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