Old School Monday: Lab-tastic!

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johnnyathm1

Look! Its spam...again.

To the system admins...press the Epic Fail button already.

To the folks at MPC...Someone get off there ass and make a command decision on this.

From: Jon Phillips [mailto:CENSOR.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 5:30 PM
To: Garn, John C SGT USA 3rd STB HHC Signal Support; George Jones; Gordon Ung; Michael Brown; Nathan Edwards; Alex Castle; Amber Bouman; allan@maximumpc.com; Andrea Recio-Ang; Jose Urrutia; Ashley Kardel; MaxPC Tips; maxcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com; Future US Webmaster
Cc: Chris Doyle
Subject: RE: Spam Attacks

 

We are well aware of the problem, and are working toward fixes that go beyond the current model of community policing. One of the problems is the "mark as spam" button is so small, and people don't even know it's there, or exactly how it works. But we're on it, John. For the time being we all need to be aggressive in marking spam as spam. Thanks for your concern, your support, and your email.

________________________________________

From: Garn, John C SGT USA 3rd STB HHC Signal Support [CENSOR.mil]

Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:10 PM

To: Jon Phillips; George Jones; Gordon Ung; Michael Brown; Nathan Edwards; Alex Castle; Amber Bouman; allan@maximumpc.com; Andrea Recio-Ang; Jose Urrutia; Ashley Kardel; MaxPC Tips; maxcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com; Future US Webmaster

Subject: Spam Attacks 

Folks, 

  Is anything being done about the extensive spam that is showing up on your web page at maximumpc.com ? It is really starting to make the whole experience of coming to the site very unpleasant. Please let us, your readers and fellow tech-geeks, know if you are aware of the problem and you are intending to do something about it. 

Respectfully,

  SGT John Garn 

Member: johnnyathm1 

Geeked at birth

 

 

(I dont see a "Mark as spam button", do you? This was back in AUG...think its time to patch this puppy.)

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winmaster

At 300% zoom, I see no "mark as spam" button. I guess it really is small. Maybe they should try the male enhancement product above your comment on said "mark as spam" button.

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tornato7

This spam is out of control. Other sites allow comments with no captchas and have no trouble with spam at all, so surely there is a way to stop these guys...

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QUINTIX256

What is very interesting is that they take the time create a login and do the captcha, but they don't try to sell anything of interest to any fools who happen to come here. Is there anyone browsing this (or any) tech site, no matter how gullible, even remotely interested in fashion?

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Zachary K.

you find a way to tell them that, they are bots who SOMEHOW get past captcha, and if they can get past it, who is it stopping? why are we doing this? and why does it give me character with dots and curvy lines on top!!!

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