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Wow, Christmas really brings out the spammers
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The amount of attempts to register has shot up this Christmas holiday, not quite sure why but its up to 20-30 a day at the moment, they are all bots, or spammers pushing viagra or some other nonsense, its much more than the usual 3-5 I normally get per day. Some are even braving the delayed moderation forum, where its possible to post, but I clean them up most evenings.

This means I need to get a bit tougher with them, rather than just refusing to activate I'm starting to ban their IP's, its a bit more time consuming but it should reduce the traffic as they tend to come from a few stock IP addresses (nearly always Russian).

Its very very unlikely that a genuine request to join will get stopped by a banned IP, but if it does, (and I am hoping the ban doesn't stop you reading this), just locate my email on the main site and let me know. I promise I'll un-ban you and get you on the site as soon as possible.
Brian Beuken
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's 



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#2
The attack of Spamma Klaus.

Funny, it sounds like a game of Space Invaders where you are trying to take out all of the baddies before they get you and they just keep coming.

Good luck.
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Ah, the new security question is keeping them at bay for a while Big Grin
Brian Beuken
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's 



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