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Hello People !
I desperately need to find affordable web hosting
but I also need it to be a cheap web hosting because
I don't want to spend a lot of money on my personal site. So if anyone knows about a reliable and cheap web site hosting service please respond.
I'll appreciate any information I can get.
Thanks.

some of these are getting ridicuolusly obvious.

I bet they keep coming back because someone was foolish enough to click one of their links for once . . .

SamJonesUS wrote:[color=#006699]
Hello People !
I desperately need to find affordable web hosting
but I also need it to be a cheap web hosting because
I don't want to spend a lot of money on my personal site. So if anyone knows about a reliable and cheap web site hosting service please respond.
I'll appreciate any information I can get.
Thanks.

Dude, I can see why you need better web hosting if THAT'S all you can find.

This is seriously out of hand, we may need a new board if this keeps up.

We just need one of those verification boxes when you register then we can delete all the spam bots.

Didnt we need Roman to do that though? And he only shows up to update.

Actualy we've got one.

Couldnt an admin set it up so they have to approve new members before they can post?

Sounds familiar...oh wait...

On Sept. 21, 2006, Teenr0cker wrote:You could do Admin-approval for new registrants instead of the letter-thing. The downside is you'd need to check very often, even more so if the forum gets tons of bots. Heck, it doesn't even have to be admin-only. I'm sure Tele could help out too.

Telephalsion wrote:Whoa now, letter checking thing is easier.

And that was the end of that bold endeavor.

I remember that. But at the time we didn't know that the letter checking thing didn't work. Didn't you need to send Lun a signed permission slip? That's was a bit much though.

Here's my plan: People can't post for 10 minutes after their account was made. Think about it, most people are dealing with validation crap at that point anyway, and the spambots just post and never come back. We might only need 1 minute. (But they might not process fast enough.)

I doubt it.

Think about it for a moment. If they're capable of searching the source for a string just to be able to "know" which board it is posting on, whats to stop them from adding a conditional statement on whether or not they have permission to post? The jist of the code would be to check and see if it can make a post, and if it can't, run a timer and keep itself busy while that timer counts down by spamming elsewhere. 10 minutes later, the machine will have run that countdown function completely and tried to post again. If it still can't, potentially it could just run the timer function again and again until the limit is over and the post is finally made. Yes, eventually it may run out of ePatience, meaning it can only try a set amount of times before trying again becomes unprofitable and inefficient. I'm sure you could make it a much longer period to do that, but there are those, on Estrana for example, who register just for one or two questions and then fade away after a few posts, and that makes it difficult...


I still think approval would be the best method, however that requires a willing and active moderation+admin team.

Maybe a short rule-related quiz?

Teenr0cker wrote:I doubt it.

Think about it for a moment. If they're capable of searching the source for a string just to be able to "know" which board it is posting on, whats to stop them from adding a conditional statement on whether or not they have permission to post? The jist of the code would be to check and see if it can make a post, and if it can't, run a timer and keep itself busy while that timer counts down by spamming elsewhere. 10 minutes later, the machine will have run that countdown function completely and tried to post again. If it still can't, potentially it could just run the timer function again and again until the limit is over and the post is finally made. Yes, eventually it may run out of ePatience, meaning it can only try a set amount of times before trying again becomes unprofitable and inefficient. I'm sure you could make it a much longer period to do that, but there are those, on Estrana for example, who register just for one or two questions and then fade away after a few posts, and that makes it difficult...


I still think approval would be the best method, however that requires a willing and active moderation+admin team.

Ok, how about this: Don't make it impossible to post, just delete any posts made in that time. Then the programmer would have to make it work specifically for this forum, which would cut the amount if not to 0% than 10%.

@Sentinel: These things seem to hack out the verification codes, they might do the same for the quiz. Plus, the answers would have to be really obvious or else someone who should be here might be bumped off.

and if someone happens to fail the quiz?
we report him to t3h authorateh > his banned from the whole forum network > it happens to be a school.

these spambots have been here before i was... for years. hence dont lookat me besides, i wouldnt be the only one on that post

anything related to reading and answering wont work, on info-age they have macros that read text off screen.

having to wait 10 minute after registration seem to be the best solution to me