Just to make folk aware that when they register with the forum they have to answer three basic questions, this is to avoid non fans of the show trying to gain access,once you have passed this stage the software mails me to let me know, as this stage I always check that the ip address matches and the user name and email address is not on any known spammers list, this part will be done asap after I received the e-mail but can be a few hours later,so far this has worked in keeping out undesirables,in fact only one managed to get access to the site in the early days before these steps were put into place
There has been as many as 10 attempts a week to register with the forum from countries that are obviously not wanting to join because they are fans, I still notice several attempts a week to log into the forum probably just chancing their arm and trying to brute force passwords,when I spot these I block their entire ip address range and in future they cannot even access the website, the block list has many thousands of ip address in it now
So fingers crossed we manage to keep them out,though if one did get through we would soon notice by their posting and soon remove them for good
There has been as many as 10 attempts a week to register with the forum from countries that are obviously not wanting to join because they are fans, I still notice several attempts a week to log into the forum probably just chancing their arm and trying to brute force passwords,when I spot these I block their entire ip address range and in future they cannot even access the website, the block list has many thousands of ip address in it now
So fingers crossed we manage to keep them out,though if one did get through we would soon notice by their posting and soon remove them for good
