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The Harris Forum Spam Problem Is Over
Posted: 16 December 2011 09:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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Nhoj Morley - 16 December 2011 03:39 AM

Your humble Harris Forum Administrator is pleased and relieved to announce that normal operations have resumed at the Sam Harris Forum. Over 26,000 spams (that’s when I stopped adding) have been deleted. Dozens of spammer have been banned. Hundreds of IP’s have been cut off. (all started with 60, 61, or 222)

All threads have been reopened for your arguing pleasure.


In Memory of Hitch, The Harris Forum will also be defended and maintained.

Good news, good work.

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Posted: 16 December 2011 11:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]
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Nhoj Morley - 16 December 2011 03:39 AM

Your humble Harris Forum Administrator is pleased and relieved to announce that normal operations have resumed at the Sam Harris Forum. Over 26,000 spams (that’s when I stopped adding) have been deleted. Dozens of spammer have been banned. Hundreds of IP’s have been cut off. (all started with 60, 61, or 222)

All threads have been reopened for your arguing pleasure.


In Memory of Hitch, The Harris Forum will also be defended and maintained.

That is a fair few Nhoj, they really had their fun, don’t reckon they sold many boots or replica hand bags though, for some reason…  cool smirk

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Always look on the light side of life.
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Posted: 08 January 2012 02:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]
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I must login when all are sleeping, as there are never any of our regulars about, this gives me time to shuffle about , looking at folks bios old and new.

During this general nosing I have noticed that many of the new users that appear are taking the liberty of hiding their spam in their bios, just this morning I checked, purely in the interest of nosing, this row of newbies…leonardL90,  XyrillCruz0011, JamesBBenz,  St3vN3chls,  GlizaMercado0010, MitchCreed009…all of them little tinkers, all the same bot I guess.

Then again it’s possible I’m the only nose nosing and I have all the Ugg boots I need so no sale here… smile

I know they won’t last long and they are a minor irritant, but then why do they bother?

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When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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