{"id":3728,"date":"2015-04-24T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2015-04-24T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:33:29","slug":"the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"space-\"<\/a>I created a replacement for an online forum (TEDEX) which is now called POSTEX Forums<\/a>. It has gathered no moss so to speak. At least the legitimate kind I was looking for.<\/p>\n

POSTEX is kind of an answer to a question that no one is asking.<\/p>\n

From the movie A Field of Dreams<\/u> there is a quote, \u201cBuild it and they will come.\u201d I built it and as what happened in the old TEDEX forum it is attracting hundreds of Western Europe and Russian registrations. They get through the registration Captcha<\/a> but register with fake machine generated names. Mostly just letter scrambles and pseudo but repetitious name mash-ups. However, some of the real names in that part of the world look like that. Captcha is far from a perfect spammer filter. (Follow the link.)<\/p>\n

The goal is simply registration and perhaps some sort of test to hack the registration process. I am not sure what the reason could be. They almost never check back and so certainly have no desire to contribute to the forum topics. I suspect sites such as POSTEX may become targets for the kiddie hackers playing with their CAPTCHA cracking scripts.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is just the CAPTCHA that is drawing the flies to the uh… honey.<\/p>\n

I could just let my database fill up with all registrations. I let that happen in my old system and just deleted registrations that have no participation in a certain length of time. There is a built in filter for doing that. I am following\u00a0that plan now. I will continue to play with open registration for a while longer. However, I feel the age of open permission and honorable intentions can never co-exist. There is too much antimatter in the universe. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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