Spammer Detective: Who Is aabroppi?
Some of the log entries in the Checkbox Challenge log are obviously spammers. What about those that aren’t? What to do about them?
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April 29, 2007
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April 27, 2007
Let’s Take a Poll
One of the things I like about phpBB is the way they handle polls. The fact that you voted is recorded. How you voted is recorded. But there is no association of how you voted with your user account. Every poll vote is anonymous. That means that moderators, administrators, even board owners with access to their database cannot tell how you voted in a particular poll. I think that’s good. But some folks would like to be able to change their votes in a poll, or even be able to determine how someone else has voted. That requires a MOD.
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April 25, 2007
Gadget of the Month: Snap Server 2200
Filed under: tech stuff — Dave Rathbun @ 3:44 pm Comments (4)
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The next post in my “GotM” series brings you the Snap Server 2200. It’s not sexy, but it does its job very well. What is that job? It’s a hard disk enclosure with an ethernet port. Plug it in to your network, run a very brief install program, and you have network-attached storage for a home or small business network. More…
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April 23, 2007
Checkbox Challenge Test Results Are Positive
If you just want a summary, here it is: this MOD idea works. 
If you want more details, Read More…
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April 19, 2007
Checkbox Challenge Initial Testing Report
My Checkbox Challenge MOD has been installed on one of my boards in its initial form since last Saturday. As a test I removed all banned email domains from my ban list. So the only thing left protecting the board is this MOD.
Since Saturday afternoon, there have been zero successful spam registrations.
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April 14, 2007
Checkbox Challenge
I took the idea from my “checkbox challenge” technique that I wrote for combatting the spam-bots on my blog and used it to start development for a phpBB registration MOD today. More…
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April 10, 2007
Blogosphere Explosion
Filed under: blog — Dave Rathbun @ 10:20 pm Comments (3)
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I read a recent article in Discover magazine that said there were nearly 60 million blogs currently online, and about 175,000 new ones each day. They already did the math (I didn’t check it, I assume it’s correct 
) that says that’s a new blog starting every half a second. 
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April 7, 2007
Live At 9
Filed under: phpBB — Dave Rathbun @ 3:01 pm Comments (2)
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No, not the phpBBDoctor.com site, but the big project that I have been working on in real life. It’s scheduled to go live on Monday, April 9th. I expect an initial flurry of activity, followed by a gradual recovery of some of my spare time. Time will tell. 
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