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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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He registered and responded to the challenge email.
Unfortunately, while the anti-spam measures I have in place do a very good job of keeping the 'bots out these days, they cant do anything about humans.
I've considered banning all free web-mail accounts from registering, since the spammers invariably operate from them.. hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc, but there are quite a few russian webmail places I see register as well, and I cant list them all.
So, the only way to stop the humans is to disable newly registered accounts from posting until I have hand reviewed and activated them. Nuisance.. I usually catch them and delete their account before they get a chance to post, but this guy was quick.
If I'm feeling particularly grouchy, I use the opportunity to blow off a little steam at their email address, since I know there is a human and not a bot reading the emails.
Send them an email with the subject "I want to place an order" or something like that, and then exercise my stock of verbose expletives to describe in detail how they have just demontrated that their suspected simian ancestry's presumed unusual sexual preference for other species are clearly exhibited in the resulting offensive behavioural patterns of their web-surfing descendants.
That way by the time they've mustered enough neurons to figure out that they're being insulted, its too late to avoid the emotional impact..
Or, if I'm feeling lazy, I'll just delete them. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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