Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:04 am
I will seriously host this site for free on one of my servers if the renewal fees are an issue. As long as I'm not profiting from the site I can host it for free.
Sega-Naomi
Sega-Naomi Forum
https://www.sega-naomi.eu/forum/
Is it worth keeping this site/forum open ?
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:34 pm
You would have to speak to Cageman about that.
Donations
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:28 pm
Can we donate towards server costs? And to who do we make them?
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:35 pm
I'll just keep saying Cageman until somebody takes note :smt006
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:42 pm
Do not worry: this site will remain open.
Donations are much appreciated, though
Any donations can be made using paypal gift to arjan.kooij at casema.nl
Donations are much appreciated, though
Any donations can be made using paypal gift to arjan.kooij at casema.nl
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:50 pm
And a very warm THANK YOU to SkyyCorvus for donating!!
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:26 am
Just had a look in the email addy that handles the spambot registrations attempts, since March 2010 there has been over 40 thousand of them !
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:52 pm
Damn! What's that all about? What a waste of time and energy. :smt011
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:05 am
It's all bot programs, mostly Chinese IP's but if you firewall china off, they just come from other IP's. I struggled with the same crap on my own phpbb forum. The way they handle it here is pretty effective (don't fill out any profile fields, or fail)
there's a few things you can do. The stock captchas were totally busted as well as the algorithm for the authentication e-mail. What I did on my forum was drop any registrations from UTC-12 since it's actually option 0 in the list and most bots pick that (it's an uninhabited time zone). Then I just added one custom profile field that is mandatory but only accepts one answer. That eliminated 99.99 percent of the attempts.
I actually attended a pretty good presentation once on how spammers actually make money through online pharmacies. Believe it or not, as stupid and as much of a waste of time as spam e-mail and forum spamming seems like, there's actually good money in it, much to every forum administrators dismay.
there's a few things you can do. The stock captchas were totally busted as well as the algorithm for the authentication e-mail. What I did on my forum was drop any registrations from UTC-12 since it's actually option 0 in the list and most bots pick that (it's an uninhabited time zone). Then I just added one custom profile field that is mandatory but only accepts one answer. That eliminated 99.99 percent of the attempts.
I actually attended a pretty good presentation once on how spammers actually make money through online pharmacies. Believe it or not, as stupid and as much of a waste of time as spam e-mail and forum spamming seems like, there's actually good money in it, much to every forum administrators dismay.
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:22 pm
Just have to say that I think you should keep things going. I love coming to this site. It has a great wealth of info and the Naomi is my favorite system. Thanks every involved with keeping it alive.