Well, DX, your request is in the pipeline.
'Serenity'
Buffistas Building a Better Board ++
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
I understand that, and will patiently await further developments.
RQG:
Cacophony. That's pretty. What's it mean?"
Harmony, 'Disharmony'
It shouldn't have the double quote at the end to be consistent with the formatting style of the other quotes.
Is there a mod around?
Done and done.
ita, the bot is back. There's more clean up to be done on the user list. This is getting tiresome.
Can you block its IP address?
(Nah, it's pro'lly not that simple, huh?)
What's happening is someone with an aol address (I think) is trying to register groups of five random letter user names using e-mail addresses of randomletters@buffistas.org. Since the e-mail addresses don't exist, the registration fails when the system tries to send the confirmation message. Also, their script isn't very good, because one of the attempted user names always looks like this:
xhsskxuw@buffistas.orgnContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0031847247=="nMIME-Version: 1.0nSubject: 2a1cdc5enTo: xhsskxuw@buffistas.orgnbcc: jrubin3546@aol.comnFrom: xhsskxuw@buffistas.orgnnThis is a multi-part message in MIME format.nn--===============0031847247==nContent-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"nMIME-Version: 1.0nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitnnlbzhztn--===============0031847247==--n
The bcc is why I think it's coming from an aol account, but the IP has changed with each batch.
Could the AOL part be spoofed?
Possibly, but given that we only see it by accident, I doubt it. More likely they're just opening new aol accounts.