I have the same issue on mine, 30 variants of 11XXX99 accounts created since yesterday, it posts with new account each time, so banning wont work, would be happy to be able to resolve this.
Thanks Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:52:27 -0500 > From: Patrick Phelan <[email protected]> > Subject: [Laconica-dev] SPAM Strange Activity > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Has anyone experienced any strange activity on their laconica instances > lately? > > My server has been getting killed the last two days from IDs similar to > 11stead99. New users keep popping up with 11 at the front end of their > user > nickname. All notices from the users come from web. Thankfully they are > not porn related but they are obviously spam oriented. I am blocking the > IDs as created in my config file but am not sure how to stop them. I am > receiving email notices saying the request to confirm email address was > rejected. After a few hours later my site becomes inaccessible and I am > not > able to even login via SSH. The only way I can gain access to my site > again > is by logging into Slicehost and creating a new root password / rebooting > the server. Scary I know. > > Any creative ideas? > > Has anyone else battled this recently? > > I am using 0.8.0 on ubuntu 9.04 with apache2 on slicehost. > > -- > Patrick > >
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