Adrian Worman wrote:Read that Jon, can't imagine having nearly a 5th of all mail as spam, thats ridiculous must be frustrating to deal with.
jr wrote:Banning by IP seldom helps. Spammers have botnets of potentially hundreds of thousands compromised home and business PCs under their control to choose from. Of course if it's just single person who dislikes our toys and believes that everyone should drive Honda Prius blocking IP-ranges could work, but there's always bunch of open proxies one can use.
I'll look again possibilities of upgrading forum on next weekend. Had some problems with new version last time I tried, but guess it's worth trying again. This won't affect functionality of current install as I'm going to do my tests on separate server.
Problem is that current version running here is long ago end-of-life so what I need to do is migrate content to completely new install rather than try to patch existing. There's migration tools available, but with few problems due non-standard features patched to old version.
- attachments disapper
- attached pictures are no longer shown as embedded part of page
- images embedded from external sources such as Flicker are not shown
- content migrated to from Dave's original forum (posted pre October 2003) are stored in HTML encoded format in database. New version doesn't allow HTML encoded content for security reasons and those posts end up looking like crap plus any embedded images disappear.
Pics are quite important part of this forum and I really don't want to lose old pre Oct 2003 posts either.
Adrian Worman wrote:Luckily for me I don't understand any of that
Is it a software issue?
Is it something that requires upgrading?
Is it going to cost money?
dave-r wrote:No there were two posts yesterday. Which suprised me as I thought once they realised they could get straight on they would have flooded the place with crap.
But that didn't happen.
So I left the board open all last night to see what would happen and this morming there was only one spam post but 6 or 7 registered as users without posting anything which is the usual overnight number. Which makes me think we are just on a list that gets ran through every night by that many spammers.
I have switched registration approval back to "admin" now.
jr wrote:- content migrated to from Dave's original forum (posted pre October 2003) are stored in HTML encoded format in database. New version doesn't allow HTML encoded content for security reasons and those posts end up looking like crap plus any embedded images disappear.
Pics are quite important part of this forum and I really don't want to lose old pre Oct 2003 posts either.
dave-r wrote:patrick wrote:I hardly ever bother to log out, when finished with the website. Should I do this after each use?
No need mate. You don't have to worry.
jr wrote:If you see some errors on forum today and tomorrow it's due me doing version upgrade. I think I found solution to problem with 2003 and older posts which was biggest challenge. Attachment inlining is also fixed.