Like most projects, we have had some issues with spammers. I did the usual things to stop the spam, which I believe is working well enough. Realizing I had over 70000 user accounts, but only about ~8000 of those legitimate, I decided to run the delete_spammers.php script. This was about 3 weeks ago. Now I have at least 1 user who claims his account disappeared. Also, according to BOINCstats, the total credits dropped on the day I ran delete_spammers. The question is how is that possible when delete_spammers is only supposed to delete those accounts with no hosts (i.e. no credit)?
I looked at my command history and found the exact commands I used. Note that the first time I ran delete_spammers I had the options out of order. Here are the commands: 1st Time: php delete_spammers.php --user_url --days 60 2nd Time: php delete_spammers.php --days 60 --user_url Looking at the code, I believe putting --user_url first only means it ignores the days option, so it checked every user, regardless of create time. Here are some forum threads for any who are interested: http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/forum_thread.php?id=242 http://boincstats.com/en/forum/10/10205 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
