Thank you Tommaso

[Aus67]

Tommaso,
I hope my small donation helps in some way to keep this forum running. All the best to the whole team!

Cheers Aus67

[milanese]

Tommaso,
I hope my small donation helps in some way to keep this forum running. All the best to the whole team!

Cheers Aus67

It helps much, thank you very much and all the best for you!!!

Tommaso

[SteveHopwood]

Tommaso told me something a couple of days ago that I did not realise.

We get around about 30 new registrations every week. 25 of them are scammers, spammers or spambots.

I do two thingies at least once a day: I visit a summary of the moderators' logs and view the 'New' link just towards the top of the main board, to make sure I miss nothing posted by our members. The mod's summary always contains at least 5 registrations deleted by Tommaso. This is typical of what I see with identifying material deleted:

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Here is a part of the doc I send when inviting invaluable members of SHF to become Moderators:

Truth to tell, you do not have to actually do very much - mod status is more a recognition of ability and outstanding contribution than it is a requirement upon the holder. People fear me because I create a lot of heat when I rant, but the one they should really fear is Tommaso (screen name milanese). I describe Tommaso as, "The Silent Assassin." He has an inbuilt cretin antennae that starts to twitch as soon as a moron starts to post something stupid. I swear he is deleting said moron's registration before the moron has pressed, "Submit".

I asked Tommaso about this. In fact, he spends a couple of hours a day catching up on these dimwits. Here is his reply to my query:

Hi Steve,

a big problem we have actually are spam bots registering, they modify fast their technics, so I must filter them out manually checking them with the https://www.stopforumspam.com/search database, so we avoid this annoying Spam bots than there are some ex-banned members, and some dispostal email servers, that we ban, for avoiding problems. I have changed some settings, that cause that fewer bannings are done automated, but manually, but so we avoid problems for legitim users, that we had in past I prefer it so, it costs maybe two hours a day but it is worth it.

I could not afford to pay for such a service. We would all have to dig deeper into our pockets were we needing to pay for it.

There would be no SHF without Tommaso.

Keep those donations coming folks, and for a long time to come.

[dreambig2]

Donation Sent Tommaso.....God Bless thru this time.
:hi:



Ps: never did find way to mark as gift on PP page I used.

[milanese]

Donation Sent Tommaso.....God Bless thru this time.
:hi:



Ps: never did find way to mark as gift on PP page I used.

Thank you so much, I wish you all the very best !!

Yours

Tommaso

[SteveHopwood]

I just sent Tommaso this query:

Hi again

I just sent my Welcome message to 16 new 'members'.

In the interests of telling our members what you do, what happens next?

• Do you wait until they post some sort of scam/spam message then delete them
• Check them against the spambot's database and delete them when they show up their.
• Something else?

Cheers

Here is his reply:

They are checked before they could register automatically(with some algos I coded), then before you will make them full members I check manually their IP and email with the known database and to we do not accept dis postal emails, or proxy users, simply as we do not support "hidden" members, for our own security. Naturally, who will post bs is immediately deleted faster as she/he can post or think(if he/she can think)

So any dimwits who get through to me are survivors of a severe cull already and will rapidly be deleted subsequently.

Wow.

Hehe. The two of you today who got your replies to the Welcome thread past Tommaso should feel pretty chuffed with yourselves. You have already shown the level of determination required to succeed here.

[SteveHopwood]

My wrup in a few minutes will include my monthly appeal on Tommaso's behalf. I have done my usual kick-start of £20.

I sent him donations of just over £190 a few seconds ago. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your generosity.

I have updated post 1 with all the details.

[milanese]

My wrup in a few minutes will include my monthly appeal on Tommaso's behalf. I have done my usual kick-start of £20.

I sent him donations of just over £190 a few seconds ago. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your generosity.

I have updated post 1 with all the details.

a BIG THANK YOU to you all, I am touched by your generosity!!

All the best to you

Tommaso

[thomasmore]

Done !
Best regards,
thomasmore

[milanese]

Done !
Best regards,
thomasmore

Thank you and have a good new year, in primis I wish you much health!

All the very best to you!

Tommaso