Temporary Registration Process
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:11 am
UPDATE 7/7/2021 I have had to temporarily remove the registration option as our site is being hit very hard by spam applications. Details in posts below.
UPDATE 7/17/2021 I have re-activated the registration option. I still need to have folks drop me an email to give me a heads-up so that I can quickly activate a legitimate request
UPDATE LATE 7/17/2021 Had to shut registration off again. Please send me an email if you want to register.
UPDATE 10/14/2021 I have activated registration again. If we get blasted by spam applications, I will have to shut it down again
Hi Folks.
As has been the case in the past, the Russians are really hitting us pretty hard with spam registrations. I have updated our spambot countermeasures and it did no good. I have tried blocking the IP address, but they are all different.
I say that the Russians are the culprits. That is not just me talking out of my hat. Many of the registrations do not even try to hide the fact that there email address has a ".ru" suffix.
It takes time to sort through each registration and I am burned out trying to deal with the issue. I am currently doing mass deletes of the applications without reviewing them. I hate that, but that is my way of dealing with the issue.
So, I am asking that folks who want to submit legitimate registrations send me an email (see signature) first with the user name they are going to use so that I will look for it in the list of registration requests.
Thanks.
UPDATE 7/17/2021 I have re-activated the registration option. I still need to have folks drop me an email to give me a heads-up so that I can quickly activate a legitimate request
UPDATE LATE 7/17/2021 Had to shut registration off again. Please send me an email if you want to register.
UPDATE 10/14/2021 I have activated registration again. If we get blasted by spam applications, I will have to shut it down again
Hi Folks.
As has been the case in the past, the Russians are really hitting us pretty hard with spam registrations. I have updated our spambot countermeasures and it did no good. I have tried blocking the IP address, but they are all different.
I say that the Russians are the culprits. That is not just me talking out of my hat. Many of the registrations do not even try to hide the fact that there email address has a ".ru" suffix.
It takes time to sort through each registration and I am burned out trying to deal with the issue. I am currently doing mass deletes of the applications without reviewing them. I hate that, but that is my way of dealing with the issue.
So, I am asking that folks who want to submit legitimate registrations send me an email (see signature) first with the user name they are going to use so that I will look for it in the list of registration requests.
Thanks.