Hello Editsuite.com friends,

Due to tons of abuse, we now require that you request user access by sending us your Login, Name, Email Address, Phone Number, and Profession by submitting that info HERE.  I'll review your request and try to get back to you within the week.  You can't imagine how many folk want to trash forums with bogas advertising. 

Also, please help us gain enough Facebook "Likes" to have a custom Facebook URL!  

--Gary Lieberman

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Wed, 08/13/2008 - 09:10
John Henkel
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?for all the spam. I've temporarily shut down any new registrations until I can find the time to locate a fix. I sure like the general openness of our forums, so will try to find a fix that doesn't impede that objective. Guess this is a sign that we are getting some recognition, though. Maybe they'll click on the Google ads and help Gary and I pay for the upkeep. :)

Thanks for your patience.

-John

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Thu, 08/14/2008 - 11:58
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John Henkel
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Somehow I knew there'd be some lively input on this subject. :) Thanks, I've used Captcha on some other stuff and will look for a plugin for this BB code.
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Thu, 08/14/2008 - 08:59
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mtiffee
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At least the porn spammers are going after their target market!!
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Thu, 08/14/2008 - 07:26
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EricG
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Listen you, stop solving CAPTCHAs for spammers and get back to work.
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Thu, 08/14/2008 - 04:21
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sahonen
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True story, a lot of spammers are defeating CAPTCHAs quite easily not using some kind of revolutionary machine vision algorithm... But by farming those CAPTCHAs out to porn sites and making visitors solve them in order to look at pictures.
- Stephan Ahonen
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Wed, 08/13/2008 - 22:48
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EricG
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[quote="John Henkel"]Maybe they'll click on the Google ads and help Gary and I pay for the upkeep. :)[/quote] Maybe, if bots are programmed to click on ads on other peoples' sites, to make money for those people, for no good reason.... But I wouldn't hold my breath. Try a CAPTCHA thingie for new registrations, if you haven't already. Spammers are starting to figure out how to defeat them, but only for the big sites like Google and Yahoo.
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