There is zero tolerance for that. They seemed to be a fellow patriot, according to their past comments. But, they have been banned. It’s common sense that this will not be tolerated.
13 Comments on Site Note: Someone Spoofed Tony R’s Name
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It’s either a compliment or an act of desperation, or maybe both? Tony R is one of the more astute commenters here. (Haven’t seen the evidence yet, so pardon my ignorance.)
1000% behind you BFH. It’s a simple common sense rule.
not understanding the motivation behind the act, but thank you for your diligence BFH & condolences to TonyR for any harm it may have caused
… another reason why this site is the best
I might have let it slide, but it’s not the first time. Thank you, Fur.
Haven’t I seen many of our regulars’ screen names hijacked and used for these annoying money making scam spam comments.
Spoofing deserves banning.
Recently I was falsely accused of doing just that.
Damn near just as bad if you ask me…
Fortunately the accuser has very little credibility.
Good work! That kind of thing wrecked more than one chat room I used to enjoy in the early years (2000-ish).
Just came to ask when you’re going to block “Doc John”, and behold! there’s one of “his” annoying spams.
I can’t block Doc John. They are spammers who do it for a living and use multiple IPs.
@BFH Just keep adding the ip to the banned list and he will eventually run out of ips. He’s using a VPN and they all have a finite number of servers.
Similar problem with spammers in the email world. We deal with them using an “DNSRBL”. When you detect a IP address submitting spam, it goes into an database, and some rules applied (prior reputation, geolocation, etc…) and then published as a fake DNS record. Example: Spammer at 1.2.3.4 gets caught and tossed in the DB, gets submitted to the DNSRBL. The DNSRBL then publishes a TXT record in a zone map with the octets reversed.
So the 1.2.3.4 becomes:
4.3.2.1.rbl.kali-refugee.net IN TXT “Spammer ”
DNS lookups are relatively cheap, and easy to insert in the process. The SMTP server then query’s this map when someone tried to send email. Any positive hit for the reversed octet record results in a rejection. The neat thing is the process lends itself to aggregation. So groups of mail servers band together and share an RBL and help each other. There’s several public RBL’s for email, SpamHaus, SORBS, etc…
Business opportunity for BFH to make one for news discussion sites like this. 🙂
I confess= I post under different names.
RADIOATIONMAN JOREL LAZER YOUTUBE SUPER STAR
JEFFERY EPSTIEN’S ROOM MATE DID NOT DIE OF C19
WHERE IS HUNTER’S LAP TOP BUTTHEADICUS [ebay handle]
ALT EGO OF RADIOATIONMAN. All the same computer & IP.
I see that on some other sites too. It is only a matter of time for that to happen, unless you’d consider a commenting system that verifies/authenticates, but even that might also happen.
It is not an easy job, running such a web site and allowing relaxed commenting system.
I appreciate all you who are involved in running iotw.