Okay -- I've double-triple checked we can't be used as a relay. However, I can't think of a way to reliably weed out the bastards.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
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§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 1:56:52 pm PDT #661 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 4:38:43 pm PDT #662 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If they're using the 'e-mail admins" form, can we capture their IP address? Would that do us any good, or is it likely to be fake?
Can we stop b.org return addresses from being accepted?
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 4:51:54 pm PDT #663 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can embed that information into the e-mails. Let's see if anything comes of it.
As for blocking b.org addresses -- dammit, I hate those kids. We shouldn't have to do that. There are legit (though avoidable) reasons to accept b.org addresses.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 5:16:08 pm PDT #664 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We shouldn't have to do that.
Yeah, I know.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 5:22:06 pm PDT #665 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Although, thinking about the e-mail form a bit, do we need it, as opposed to just using a mailto link? The form is nice because is fills in the user's default e-mail address, but most of the messages we get are from people who either aren't Buffistas yet, or have forgotten their username or password, and therefore aren't logged in anyway. For them, the form doesn't really provide any more functionality than a mailto would, does it?
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 5:32:08 pm PDT #666 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The form means that people who don't have access to their e-mail clients can still send messages to the admins.
Eddie - Oct 14, 2005 5:39:36 pm PDT #667 of 4671
Your tag here.
can we capture their IP address
You'll want to be careful about blocking IP addresses. You can quickly block all aol.com users because they use proxy servers, for example.
a mailto link
Spambots look for mailto links, so that may make things worse. This may help with this problem, however: [link]
Edit: ita makes a good point about email clients.
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 5:42:14 pm PDT #668 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We already have a mailto link on the page. That genie's out of the bottle.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 6:07:30 pm PDT #669 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You'll want to be careful about blocking IP addresses. You can quickly block all aol.com users because they use proxy servers, for example.
Yeah, we know that. Not talking about blocking IPs, more like reporting the little morons to abuse at their ISP if we can track them down.
The original scripts were launched with AOL return addresses as I recall.
Eddie - Oct 14, 2005 6:14:00 pm PDT #670 of 4671
Your tag here.
Is the problem the volume of emails sent? If so, perhaps setting a time limit per IP address would be a workable solution; i.e., one email per address per hour.