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Post Info	ILHI 18:01, 18 August 2007 (EDT)
Content	Bots aren't clever enough to go and email an email address with their email. Are they? I come on here loads. Just because it's in my chain of websites I visit, so, yeah, we can do it fairly quickly, but it's really annoying.

Post Info	Drifting 17:57, 18 August 2007 (EDT)
Content	Hmm, maybe. But how are we going to be able to tell who's a bot and who's not based solely on an e-mail address. Granted, this system would allow us to block the most obvious offenders, but we might block out some legit users in the process. It's a bit of a conundrum, really. I really don't think we have enough of a problem with spambots yet to warrant this system. At the moment, we seem to be able to reverse their vandalism fairly quickly.

Post Info	Xylaquin 17:24, 18 August 2007 (EDT)
Content	Well ILHI and I have just banned two spambots. These things are trouble as there's no option to enable bot-stoppers in registration (like "type these characters"). Registration is disabled at the moment. Perhaps we should implement a system where new registrants email an email address and are then registered by an Admin; this wouldn't be a lot of work since not many people join frequently. But having to email to join does deter new members...

Post Info	Xylaquin 14:47, 17 August 2007 (EDT)
Content	Biggest archive to date XD

Ever so often when the page gets big, it is cut and pasted into these archives and the chat page is clean for more chat!