Registering on Microlighters.co.za

[cobra]

DarkHelmet have look at the following link and see of you could help !

http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=67258

[DarkHelmet]

A personal mail to admin (at) microlighters (dot) co (dot) za will not be filtered out, we are suffering serious bot spam and we tend to not see the humans from the robots.

Please accept our sincerest apologies for letting registrations slip through, but we are 4 admins saving everyone else from the spammers, I think it a worthy sacrifice...

To people wanting to join - please be patient and one of us will try to respond as soon as possible!

[Morph]

We get hit with up to 300 registrations a day

here is a sample of the names
Innovator, blogcgreality, NemVerceNit613, simon, sandiegobk, sddivorce, ZEMIBREERTY, XimenaCyr, wearcaple, tumumpexy, Boelcke, Whattproria, Heammakylew, good magazine, exsilebizz, viffUnodixBix, Accelpreilm, billyxav, Zurebinzeh, thurman7bc, insave, jimojwuqabiiv, melissagibso, Offerfassaby, wemyanimake, DaxunfiniaHen, maxmillspace, DavidBlacky, sabestyan2pattyp5, Serjxlpt, FlowerHand, BigAppleb, jeownoccuck, Detgobosteorn, 23Feldtun, LeupoldEst, Nownabah1965, Arrodonef, titedigma, jorndinny, ZenCipsypepece, inokihewja, Poopyny, queedgewoorne, IrreseClotogs, clast

I manually scan every one and unless they are Afrikaans, make some sense or are aviation related, they get turfed into cyberspace

I suggest we change the wording on the registration page to insist on a logical name. for example, a reg EPH, Morning Flyer, Flippie, Arend, etc it makes the selection criteria a lot easier

also gmail is the biggest culprit. Use a different address and you will get through.

[cobra]

Hi Morph, as a matter of interest! how does avcom deal with this problem?

[skybound®]

Hi Morph, as a matter of interest! how does avcom deal with this problem?

Multi pronged approach. Taken some effort to get there as we too suffered similar levels of spambots. We are now down to a few (less than 5) a month so happy with being able to allow user based activations. But as with any approach - there is always some 'cost' or inconvenience.

[Tr0jan]

Hehe, thats why my username was never allowed damn spammers!

[JvTonder]

Hi guys,

My brother Nelius van Tonder tried to register on Microlighters and got a reply that his request is being processed on the 11 September but still has not got anything back. He also send a mail to admin with following reply:

"-----Original Message-----
From: Mail Delivery System [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@smtp6.wa.co.za]
Sent: 30 September 2010 10:55
To: nelius.vt@iafrica.com
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender


This is the mail system at host smtp6.wa.co.za.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own
text from the attached returned message.

The mail system

<admin@microlighters.co.za>: host mail.spambox.co.za[196.33.227.30] said:
550-Callout verification failed: 550 550 No Such User Here. (in reply to
RCPT TO command)"


Can you please help?

Regards
Jaco

[Morph]

Emailed, registered and activated

If you guys are having problems, call me ooh ate 3, too 3 6, fifewun 53

[JvTonder]

Thanks very much Morph, will tell him to go log on

[Wingless Chicky]

Hey to all.... I'm new but not that new.....I just been away for a while.... hope all is good and still flying high