IslandLizards
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When you use the section you are using, sometimes its not 100% up to date. Check you csf and see if that network is actually added in there.
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Responding to email notices you receive.
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In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.
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IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed
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Posted 08/15/2025
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Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.
Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."
Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....
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Addendum: 01/10/2026
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Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....
Lots of guests today...
- Thread starter WebSlave
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When you use the section you are using, sometimes its not 100% up to date. Check you csf and see if that network is actually added in there.
Well, this poses a question. Once I run this on my server, how long will it actually be up to date? Seems like ownership of blocks of IP addresses will change quite a bit over time. But I've never looked into how allocations are actually handled at the ISP level.
Personally, when blocking IP addresses, individually and by blocks, I would periodically wipe the slate clean every year or so and start anew. If I check IP addresses on someone who has registered here many moons ago, generally the location pointed to is rarely where their stated location is. Which makes trying to match someone with someone else pretty dicey, at best.
In any event, I just got another spammer get through with a Russian IP address.
I guess I'll just have to see how much the total number of spammers registering every day works out to be after implementing this change. If it reduces the total number quite a bit, and server loading is minimal, it will be worthwhile. But do I have to somehow refresh the IPs within csf every now and again?
Well, this just does not seem to have worked as well as I had hoped. Got 8 new spammer registrations earlier today:
I'm running this by my server guys to see if perhaps I just didn't set this up correctly.
I'm running this by my server guys to see if perhaps I just didn't set this up correctly.
Well, I let this run for a few days, and I'm still getting spammer registrations from the countries supposedly blocked. My server guys told me that this really wouldn't help much because IPV4 IP addresses change hands quite often, even between countries. So although the list gets refreshed every time csf is restarted, it will likely block IPs from countries I really don't want blocked, and will allow spammers with IPs even recognized as being from the blocked countries.
So this seemed like a real good idea to try, but unfortunately it just doesn't appear to work as well as I had hoped it would. I don't believe that the number of spammers I have to block at registration really changed any. And, of course, any using a VPN could easily sidestep this anyway.
And it might have just been my imagination, but it seemed that every now and again that my own accessing my sites would sometimes just hang up with a delay in allowing me onto the sites or make a post.
So all things considered, I disabled this function.
It was worth a shot, however.
So this seemed like a real good idea to try, but unfortunately it just doesn't appear to work as well as I had hoped it would. I don't believe that the number of spammers I have to block at registration really changed any. And, of course, any using a VPN could easily sidestep this anyway.
And it might have just been my imagination, but it seemed that every now and again that my own accessing my sites would sometimes just hang up with a delay in allowing me onto the sites or make a post.
So all things considered, I disabled this function.
It was worth a shot, however.