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jrmunro

Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 3149 Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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I think that is an excellent idea. I have browsed through the member list a was thinking the same thing.
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FDIV

Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 740 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Da Boot No one who dosen't post needs to be a user now do they? |
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JAC

Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 3469
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Some forums do a clean up by emailing all registered users, if they dont get a response after 90 days the accounts are deleted. 180 days might be better. |
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gshv

Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 7898 Location: Fairfax, VA USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: Re: New users |
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| chiptalk wrote: | | Maybe we should clean up the user list on the forum? I don't know if spam agents use these fake users as way to get into registered forums or not, but either way, they just clutter the members list. |
Most of them are spammers. They never confirm their e-mail address, and it's easy to confirm that they are spammers by searching for their forum nick in Google:
"viewing profile" "all about cigarettesmania"
| Quote: | | Take a look at some of the most recent strange users (like many, these all have zero posts as well): |
I removed many of them. I'm going to remove more spammer accounts in the next few days, and I will remove all older than a month users that didn't confirm their e-mail.
He's not a spammer.
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Zypher

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 19 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: Re: New users |
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That is defiantly a spammer. He(it?) had made a post in general modern chips, about cheap cigarettes a few hours earlier. Seems to have been deleted now though. |
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sammyc

Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 1668 Location: Scottish Borders
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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| FDIV wrote: | Da Boot No one who dosen't post needs to be a user now do they? |
i disagree as some users save settings, like to rememebr what posts they have had and what are new, and may PM from time to time. _________________ 4000+ chips.
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gshv

Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 7898 Location: Fairfax, VA USA
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: Re: New users |
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| gshv wrote: | | I will remove all older than a month users that didn't confirm their e-mail. |
I removed all one-month old or older users who never activated their accounts.
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