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Forum: vB4 General Discussions 07-11-2012, 10:52 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 630
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Macsee, You raise an excellent point....

Dear Macsee,

You raise an excellent point. What is acceptable on one board may be considered "leading up to spam" in another.

From experience with my own board (and my own spammers) most fluff...
Forum: vB4 General Discussions 07-10-2012, 12:46 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 630
Posted By kjkoster
Dear DirtBanger, I agree, Stopforumspam is a...

Dear DirtBanger,

I agree, Stopforumspam is a great service and every day I am grateful to Paul for offering it.

As to how: well, I have some ideas for a plugin, but they only work if the world...
Forum: vB4 General Discussions 07-10-2012, 11:36 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 630
Posted By kjkoster
Hate spammers as much as I do? Spam cleaning service idea, need feedback

Dear All,

Spam has always been a pain in my side (and it still is). Recently, however I got to think about offering spam cleaning as a service. In an ideal world I would like to make forum...
Forum: vB3 General Discussions 04-24-2009, 01:49 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 587
Posted By kjkoster
*hehe* that is a clever twist. :-) The...

*hehe* that is a clever twist. :-)

The profiles of banned users are visible, though they are not linked from the members page.
Forum: vB3 General Discussions 04-24-2009, 08:28 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 587
Posted By kjkoster
member overview page being used for linkfarming

Dear All,

Recently I have discovered an insidious form of vbulletin-based spamming on my forum. I have a habit of banning spammers permanently, but leaving their accounts so they cannot reuse the...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-20-2009, 05:15 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,142
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Angel-Wings, Hmm. Excellent points....

Dear Angel-Wings,

Hmm. Excellent points. Certainly food for thought. This is beginning to sound like less and less of a good idea. Thanks for you advise.

Kees Jan
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-19-2009, 02:07 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,142
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Paul M, I meant to say that the regular...

Dear Paul M,

I meant to say that the regular forum mysql user should not have CREATE/ALTER/DELETE privileges and the administrative site should. My bad. :)

As for the password protecting, that...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-19-2009, 07:28 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,142
Posted By kjkoster
Dear j883376, Yes, I am aware of the...

Dear j883376,

Yes, I am aware of the licensing issues that such a setup would bring. The whole point of this setup would be to have the admincp inaccessible to anyone but admininstrators.

...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-19-2009, 05:54 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,142
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Dismounted, Well, that is my question:...

Dear Dismounted,

Well, that is my question: does vbulletin or Apache cache stuff that would make moving the admincp to a different machine harder?

Kees Jan
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-19-2009, 05:46 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,142
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Dismounted, So there is no caching in...

Dear Dismounted,

So there is no caching in vbulletin that may make this difficult?
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-18-2009, 08:01 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 963
Posted By kjkoster
Dear foroalfaromeo, You are aware of...

Dear foroalfaromeo,

You are aware of http://www.stopforumspam.com/ and its vb plugin: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=176481 are you?

Let's not duplicate efforts. :D I was trying to...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-18-2009, 06:05 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,142
Posted By kjkoster
Admincp on a different machine?

Dear All,

I am planning to move my admincp pages to a different host. I have a separate machine for monitoring and other supporting tasks and this allows me to do some really draconian IP...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-18-2009, 06:00 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 963
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Lynne, Here is a sample that I lifted...

Dear Lynne,

Here is a sample that I lifted from my access log. The times between the first and second request are indeed quite fast, but the third request tool human-like time.


121.231.14.208...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-18-2009, 05:56 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 957
Posted By kjkoster
Limiting vbulletin database grants?

Dear All,

I currently run with a vbulletin database user that simply has all rights on all tables in the vbulletin schema. That is nice and predictable, but I would feel more comfortable if that...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 04-18-2009, 05:52 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 963
Posted By kjkoster
Detecting registration bots

Dear All,

I have noticed recently that the automated spammer registrations use fairly predictable patterns. I am wondering if anyone has used such patterns to kill their tools?

First is that...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 03-23-2009, 08:01 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,128
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Lynne, That is precisely the...

Dear Lynne,

That is precisely the information I needed. Excellent. Thank you.

From the scheduled tasks I see that running once every 10 minutes is all I need to do.

Kees Jan
Forum: Forum and Server Management 03-22-2009, 06:18 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,128
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Dismounted, My site uses the stock...

Dear Dismounted,

My site uses the stock vbulletin cron script. All I'm trying to do is automate calling that script so that it does not have to be part of the user's requests any longer.

So *I*...
Forum: Forum and Server Management 03-21-2009, 08:06 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,128
Posted By kjkoster
Dear Paul, By not having the spinner run for...

Dear Paul,

By not having the spinner run for longer than necessary.

I did say *appear*. :)

Kees Jan
Forum: Forum and Server Management 03-21-2009, 06:43 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 765
Posted By kjkoster
If cron.php is not called regularly, what will go wrong

Dear All,

If cron.php is not called regularly, what will go wrong?

I'm asking so that I know what to monitor to check that everything is well.
Forum: Forum and Server Management 03-21-2009, 06:39 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,128
Posted By kjkoster
Cron.php from ... well ... cron :) Good interval?

Dear All,

I want to move calling cron.php from being called as part of the user page loading into a task scheduled in cron. All in the name of making my site appear as quick as possible.

What...
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