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    Exclamation Forum SPAM Notice

    All,

    Due to the recent onslaught of Spammers in the forum, sadly we have had to disable the new registrations originated in India.
    Before doing so, we where getting 10s of spam account registrations daily and after leaving the filter in place for 2 weeks, the attempts to register continue.

    If any of you know someone located in India that wishes to register, please let any of the ATAG members know so we can manually create their account.

    For an alternative way to request registration for those in India, you can also email (remove the spaces):
    atag_forum @ theairtacticalassaultgroup.com

    Please be patient as this email address is not checked continuously.


    Thanks for understanding,
    ATAG_Colander.
    Last edited by ATAG_Colander; Feb-25-2015 at 19:39.

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    Re: Forum SPAM Notice

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Colander View Post
    All,

    Due to the recent onslaught of Spammers in the forum, sadly we have had to disable the new registrations originated in India.
    Before doing so, we where getting 10s of spam account registrations daily and after leaving the filter in place for 2 weeks, the attempts to register continue.

    If any of you know someone located in India that wishes to register, please let any of the ATAG members know so we can manually create their account.

    Thanks for understanding,
    ATAG_Colander.
    Is it an idea to put an e-mail into this post, where people from india could write if they want an account...?
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    Re: Forum SPAM Notice

    Quote Originally Posted by Continu0 View Post
    Is it an idea to put an e-mail into this post, where people from india could write if they want an account...?
    Good idea. Done.

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    Re: Forum SPAM Notice

    Is it not possible to have the initial few posts (10-15) of a new user approved by ATAG moderators before being made public? I know that this system is in place in many other forums.

    I'm also very sorry guys for these spamming activities from my country.


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    Re: Forum SPAM Notice

    In our forums we had some awful bot issues so rather than block we stopped using captcha and moved to some simple human only aircraft type questions to answer. The bot registrations have completely stopped since.

    I don't know if this forum type supports that though.

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    Re: Forum SPAM Notice

    To answer both:
    1.- We are not going to have the forum moderators spending their free time approving and removing posts. We are talking about 10's of spam registrations daily.
    2.- We tried everything, including a plane related question PLUS the captcha. These appear not to be bots but real people being paid to register manually.

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