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 Post subject: 403 Forbidden errors! - Spam measures
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:25 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Further Spam measures (potential spam bot ban)
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:19 am 
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I've increased the strength and automation of our anti spam features. If for any reason you are experiencing difficulties accessing the site from various locations or devices please mail info@toutless.com with the type of device you are using (iphone, pc etc), the browser (firefox,chrome, internet explorer) and your ip (visit http://www.whatsmyip.org/ and take the info from the top).

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 Post subject: Re: Further Spam measures (403 Forbidden errors!)
PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:30 pm 
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These measures are now active. The block page has a link within it to allow a ticket to be logged if you are accidentally blocked. Please use it if you experience problems when using or accessing the site.

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 Post subject: Re: Spam measures (403 Forbidden errors!)
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:11 pm 
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Unfortunately tickets that were being logged managed to get lost. I've mailed people who attempted to contact us. Please get in contact again if you are still having problems.

I've added a general whitelist for the entire of Ireland but it only works when providers have their side setup to identify you as Irish. Unfortunately Meteors mobile phone network didn't and they were also blacklisted on the system we use to check if people can access the site. This had the knock on effect of blocking people accessing from Meteor. This has now been fixed.

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 Post subject: Re: Spam measures (403 Forbidden errors!)
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:05 pm 
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I've updated our blocks and once again China is out entirely as the small amount of spam that was getting through was once again making up 100% of the traffic we were getting from China. Apologies to any legitimate Chinese users.

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 Post subject: Re: Spam measures (403 Forbidden errors!)
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:59 pm 
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Some baddies were getting in. I've updated our software in the hope that stops this. Let me know if anything is horribly broken.

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 Post subject: Re: Spam measures (403 Forbidden errors!)
PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:11 am 
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They appear to be still getting in. I need to sit down and work on this. Apologies in the meantime for any spam that gets through. We'll nuke it as soon as possible.

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 Post subject: Re: 403 Forbidden errors! - Spam measures
PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:04 pm 
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I've made a few tweaks in the hope this will help.

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 Post subject: Re: 403 Forbidden errors! - Spam measures
PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:03 pm 
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I've tracked down the problem to an access issue to the site which keeps a track of spammers. Ironicaly we were being blocked by similar software as we were accessing it too often. Things should be a lot cleaner from now on in.

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