Re: [nyphp-talk] Re: talk Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15

2008-10-14 Thread Justin Dearing
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Brian Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been on many a list in my day and the Digest version always breaks a > message thread. Yeah, digests are bad, unless you are sure you will always be read only. I wonder if some of the list indexing services like nabb

Re: [nyphp-talk] Re: talk Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15

2008-10-14 Thread Brian Williams
it would appear that your "problems" are arrising from the use of the Digest volume. I've been on many a list in my day and the Digest version always breaks a message thread. If you continue to use the digest, you would probably be best off to copy the message that you are replying to into your e

[nyphp-talk] Re: talk Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15

2008-10-14 Thread Joe
I'm not used to working through lists. Just started. The other one I use they have a reply-to on the individual message so the subject get's appended. How do you guys get the "re" in the subject line? Anyway, I'm responding to the forum spammer thread. These days, if you put some energy into it

[nyphp-talk] UNIGROUP Meeting 16-OCT-2008 (Thu): Asterisk Open Source PBX/Telephony System

2008-10-14 Thread forest mars
This promises to be very cool. A talk followed by a hands on lab. And a virtual haunted house in Asterisk. This Thursday! UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - OCTOBER 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS =

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Manes
sbeam wrote: Akismet should be mentioned here, a popular spam detection ASP, free for non-commercial use http://akismet.com/ Another new entry is Mollum (www.mollum.com). It was created by the lead developer of Drupal, Dries Buytaert. It bundles up concepts from Akismet, Captcha, Razor and

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 13:11, csnyder wrote: > Just looked at Bad Behavior, and it looks like an excellent tool to > add to the kit. > hey. that looks interesting too. But it sounds http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/documentation/how-it-works/ like it is just looking at HTTP headers? if yo

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:39, csnyder wrote: > I would design it so that everything went through a > spam filter first, and the bigger the better. Like GMail if you can > accept that from a privacy point of view, or your organization's > internal spam filter. Then, and only then, would I allow

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread csnyder
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, csnyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In response to the fellow having problems with forum spammer, google "Bad >> Behavior" and install it. Just looked at Bad Behavior, and it looks like an excel

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread csnyder
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to the fellow having problems with forum spammer, google "Bad > Behavior" and install it. > > Other ideas. > > Create a question where people have answer for example "5+2". Or forego that > because it's a pain and simp

Re[4]: [nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread mikesz
Hello Brian, Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 11:58:55 PM, you wrote: > if it has only started happening with the latest version i would check the vBulletin forums and see if there is a fix for the bug, or to even make sure they know about it. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Re[2]: [nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Sims
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I only work on vBulletin and I always make sure I have the latest stuff > installed. Earlier versions didn't have problem but since 3.7 seems like > the badguys have found a way to just bypass the whole registration > process. Like I said in t

Re: Re[2]: [nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread John Campbell
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Thanks for the reply... > > I only work on vBulletin and I always make sure I have the latest stuff > installed. Earlier versions didn't have problem but since 3.7 seems like the > badguys have found a way to just bypa

[nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread Joe
In response to the fellow having problems with forum spammer, google "Bad Behavior" and install it. Other ideas. Create a question where people have answer for example "5+2". Or forego that because it's a pain and simply add a form field that you use css to hide from humans and if that field

Re: Re[2]: [nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread Brian Williams
if it has only started happening with the latest version i would check the vBulletin forums and see if there is a fix for the bug, or to even make sure they know about it. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > > Thanks for the reply... > > > I only wor

Re[2]: [nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread mikesz
Hello Brian, Thanks for the reply... I only work on vBulletin and I always make sure I have the latest stuff installed. Earlier versions didn't have problem but since 3.7 seems like the badguys have found a way to just bypass the whole registration process. Like I said in the previous post wi

Re: [nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread Brian Williams
IMO registration forms should only use POST beacuse REQUEST is a conglomerate of POST, GET, etc and is affected by the php.ini with the variables_order and can be messed up and set insecurely by the host; having said that, i do believe that cURL can do a POST. so it's not a 100% solution to the p

Re: [nyphp-talk] Timeouts ... how to get around it?

2008-10-14 Thread Rolan Yang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello NYPHP, I have an array that has 13000 email addresses. For now, its in the script but will be in a database table eventually. It is a list of known bad guys. I have a database table with 9000 records and one of the fields is ... Anyone have a better idea

RE: [nyphp-talk] Timeouts ... how to get around it?

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Solomon
2 more efficient ways: 1 - mysql solution - (You will have to look up the exact syntax) - select table1.email from table1 where table1.email in (select table2.email from table2) into table3. This will give you all the matches in table3. Table1 should both probably be indexed on email, but you ca

Re: [nyphp-talk] Timeouts ... how to get around it?

2008-10-14 Thread Glenn
Hi, Getting those 13000 into the db would be a good thing. Then you could index the email cols in both tables, and just do a join on the tables. In the meantime, maybe try getting ALL of the email values from the db into an associative array, (email => 1) and looping over an "array_key_exists".

[nyphp-talk] Bypassing Registration forms on vBulletin forums ... I guess other forums are having similar problem too?

2008-10-14 Thread mikesz
Hello NYPHP, I am seeing that Registration forms are taking a huge beating from scammers and spammers today, especially forum sites. I spend most of my time lately collecting and filtering data to find the freaks before they find the membership. Use to be and "every now and again" but now its thou

Re[4]: [nyphp-talk] Timeouts ... how to get around it?

2008-10-14 Thread mikesz
Hello Elijah, Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 2:47:14 PM, you wrote: > mikez, I would suggest you break this down a bit, for instance instead of running 13000 sql queries, do a simple look up using IN. For example: 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE email IN ("' . implode('","',$emailsArray) . '")