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Name:	Will O*Reagan
Date Posted:	Jul 20, 2007
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We are offering a Sticker To the first 15 people who register at This is a great way to become involved with an up and coming production company. MMI is concentrating on new development techniques. Were very interested in art and artists of all kinds. FFV, movies, games, and much more. Stop on by, register, and post something to let us know you arn't spam (we even have a catagory for introductions) and We'll send you a sticker to your address, no questions asked. And yes, your personal information will remain private I promise!

Will-O,

MMI

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Then we'll send you teeshirts, hats, alarm clocks, economy vehicles, and maybe even demos. haha.
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Steve L (Jul 20, 2007 at 08:08 GMT)

Just tried to register but got an error. Tried again and got told that the email address has already been registered. Tried to login and got told that the username was invalid. :(

Sounds good though!

Andy Hawkins (Jul 20, 2007 at 13:31 GMT)

I registered at the 15th member! Phew! @ Steve L - I got an error but I'm on the list.

Check the member list
www.modernmoviei.com/forum/memberlist.php

Steve L (Jul 20, 2007 at 13:47 GMT)

Cheers Andy! I'm there at 14. Still can't log in though!

Will O*Reagan (Jul 20, 2007 at 17:04 GMT)

Ok, heres the list let me know if you are not on it.

YellowShadow
Shining_in_the_darkness
SkaldicPoet
MacabreSoul
Melchman
Psychopsam
StevelydFord
MikeR

Thats about 8 confirmed non-bot users, so we have about 7 more stickers to give away even though it says 15 members, I think some might be bots.
Edited on Jul 21, 2007 01:31 GMT

Will O*Reagan (Jul 20, 2007 at 17:34 GMT)

@Steve and Psycho
I activated both of your accounts,

@Steve, you have mail

Sorry about slow activation(and password change steve), that will change in the future. We are on manual still for bot/spam watch, due to a very high number of bot invasions over the first month(I didnt know this).
Edited on Jul 20, 2007 17:48 GMT

Flybynight Studios (Jul 20, 2007 at 18:49 GMT)

Will I just recently had to protect my site from spambots using PhPBB.. It actually wasnt nearly as much work as I thought. The bot software uses the assumption that you are using default scripts for whatever your backend is. (mine being PhPBB not sure what yours is).. The bots scan for files they know should exist to register on each different backend type and simply try and pass in the registration info for that particular reg.php automatically..

Most backend softwares now have some really easy and simple mods that change the registration processing by as little as one simple field and if a bot tries to autoreg itself it wont know that field isnt allowed and your reg software will give them the boot.

In my case the PhPBB support forums were awesome and loaded with many resources to stop the bots. It was like night and day when I made the changes (which took all of 5minutes.) Zero registrations in 48 hours.

The next step I took was another 2 minute mod to the backend that stopped unauthenticated users from browsing the memberlists and grouplists to stop email/url farming. Again in this case the bots dont actually "click" on your links, so removing the links doesnt help. They simply search for common memberlist.php scripts and process them to farm all your members profile info.

Another quick mod and anytime someone on my site tries to hit the memberlist or profile pages without showing they are first authenticated at the site and boom.. they get Das Boot!.

Good luck with your site. It really wasnt as hard for me as I expected it to be and the results were instantaneous and 100% effective.

Will O*Reagan (Jul 20, 2007 at 21:34 GMT)

I'm going to keep it the way it is. Its manual activation. Basically, we have a ban list, and if that builds up high enough, we might lower the manual activation back to an automated system.

So if you register, just wait and you'll eventually recieve an email saying your account is activated, might take a day.

Mike Rowley (Jul 20, 2007 at 23:23 GMT)

Quote:
Could not connect to smtp host : 65 : No route to host

DEBUG MODE

Line : 112
File : smtp.php

I'm MikeR on the memberlist tho.
If you upgraded to phpBB3, you would have fewer problems with bots as it has better protection. You would also have a lot more control over user permissions.

Will O*Reagan (Jul 21, 2007 at 01:24 GMT)

I activated you! I'll pass the phpbb3 word to my moderator, thanks!

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