16,249

[JohnR]

That is how many Sp4mB0t$ have been successfully blocked from registering on S-B from January 14, 2012 until 8:52 am, today, by the system I am running. 16,249

I have manually resolved another many hundred that slipped through cracks.

What does this mean? Sucks to be spending x Hours per week just on

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by JohnR

That is how many Sp4mB0t$ have been successfully blocked from registering on S-B from January 14, 2012 until 8:52 am, today, by the system I am running. 16,249

I have manually resolved another many hundred that slipped through cracks.

What does this mean? Sucks to be spending x Hours per week just on

a waste of time,money and your resorces... but i think i speak for all of us here when I say "Thank you" for providing a quality place to gather when we are not on the water...

Thanks boss man!

[bart]

whoa, that's ridiculous. Thanks for having us, John...

[Saltheart]

Wow , that's huge. There should be some justice allowing you to charge back for the time/expense to beat off these vultures!

[GattaFish]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

a waste of time,money and your resorces... but i think i speak for all of us here when I say "Thank you" for providing a quality place to gather when we are not on the water...

Thanks boss man!

Your definitely speaking for me ....

Thanks John....
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[striperman36]

would addin captcha help?

[piemma]

Thanks John. Gotta be a better way to stop this crap without wasting your valuable time. I'll find out what our guys use but we are Mac based. Wouldn't think it would matter.

[PaulS]

I snuck through!

[numbskull]

Now if you could just block Sauerkraut's drivel all would be good.

[chefchris401]

Thanks John, keep blocking them.

PM me when you can fish again.
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[Piscator]

I hate spam, even with spicy mustard and a cold beer. Never really had the tast for that stuff..............

Thanks for taking it off our plate John

[tysdad115]

Thank you John .

[Sgt Striper]

Thanks John, great job. May I add also that I have installed a tracking blocker app. and it is nice to see that S-B is clean, just Google. Amazing how some of the "other" sites have 8 or more add tracking and tracking co's trying to get my info!!

[Raven]

figuring out how we may assist you

even if it's writing letters....adding a name to a petition
or somehow making S-B's voice heard because

when i saw the number....here i was already thinking years
not months... OMG!

CLEARLY, congress has not done enough or
addressed this issue with enough importance....that,(spam)
and the outrageous amount of identity thievery going on
which is essentially in the same arena .... needs to END
..........
Even Yahoo just got hacked and a huge number of identity's
and their passwords exposed....to the internet.
.........
But anyways Thanks JohnR ! for your dedication

[JohnR]

Thanks guys - The way I look at it, the system is in the high 80s / low 90s percentage-wise for blocking stuff so that is not bad.

I do have some better solutions that I hope to incorporate some time in the future with some upgrades.

As for advanced captcha - that will also stop the old farts from registering

Originally Posted by Sgt Striper

Thanks John, great job. May I add also that I have installed a tracking blocker app. and it is nice to see that S-B is clean, just Google. Amazing how some of the "other" sites have 8 or more add tracking and tracking co's trying to get my info!!

Yeh, I could never put you guys through something I am not happy about going through myself. Nor will I sell your email addresses.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by JohnR

As for advanced captcha - that will also stop the old farts from registering

i think you like to play with FIRE !

as i wasn't an old fart when i joined S-B
but i sure am NOW , or will be in 14 more days

[Bazza]

John,

Thanks for all your time and effort keeping the clean, and up and running

[Kokanee]

Thank you, John, for letting me in.

[macojoe]

From someone that is fighting the same issues on my site I understand!! I have closed down all memberships on my site till I approve them, and as of late I get any were from 10 to 100 spamers trying to join each day
Good Job you are doing here!! I wish I knew more to stop them from doing it to me!!

[Piscator]

John, can you help us all out with telemarkers as well? Ha, ha, ha

I know off topic but I'm on the do not call list (which is a joke) and get these calls now from Canada for services I don’t even need. After a stint of being nasty and name calling, I started to play games with them. The old, hold on one second, or speaking in an accent they can’t understand, or talking but hitting mute on and off. It was entertaining for a while but got old.

Now, I say to them "why are you calling me at this number? this is a business line" and they usually say, “sorry, we will take you off our list immediately” Seemed to help reduce the calls.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Piscator

John, can you help us all out with telemarkers as well? Ha, ha, ha

I know off topic but I'm on the do not call list (which is a joke) and get these calls now from Canada for services I don’t even need. After a stint of being nasty and name calling, I started to play games with them. The old, hold on one second, or speaking in an accent they can’t understand, or talking but hitting mute on and off. It was entertaining for a while but got old.

Now, I say to them "why are you calling me at this number? this is a business line" and they usually say, “sorry, we will take you off our list immediately” Seemed to help reduce the calls.

Comcast allows me to block at the CO up to 40 numbers. I keep adding or subtracting based on the change of what number is calling.

I also do the 2 sec no voice, hang up .

[piemma]

We are using several but the guys like SpamTitan

[HESH2]

thanks john for all you do

[eelskimmer]

John,
Many thanks for that and much, much more.
We luv u kiddo.

[Fish_Eye]

It's nice to have someone that knows what they are doing at the helm. Thanks!

[jimmy z]

Wow, that is some number. Thank you John for all you do to keep us out of harm's way!

[ThomCat]

Have U tried it on the grill, John, tasty!!! Just kidding, man, U know me I'm such a kidder. Keep up the good woik. Catch'em up, TC

[N.ShoreFisher]

thanks for your service John

[JohnR]

22,419

Originally Posted by N.ShoreFisher

thanks for your service John

NSF - thanks but that makes it sound like those that really served - and I maxed out as a brat.

[striperman36]

Unfortunately, being connect to the internet has become a wild west bar saloon.
Every two hit hustler and floozy is trying to empty your wallet while the piano player plays on

Thank you for beating them down Mr Redmond.