I'm not sure how to stop it.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:11 PM, egasus egasus <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Same here
> now i am getting a similar spam attack..
>
> 2009/7/23, Patrick Phelan <[email protected]>:
>>
>> 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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