Concerned Security With Hosting Application Info - Spam bots can harvest emails in requests
michaelper22
Jan 27 2006, 12:00 AM
I was looking around at the posts in the free hosting request section (just for fun), and noticed a major problem with the applications. For every application that is made, the email address of that applicant is shown to the world, including SPAMBOTS!!! This is a major flaw in the aplication process, and will lead to increase levels of spam in every member's inbox. This is the only thing that is wrong with any part of the Trap17 site.
Have you received spam since you signed up with Trap17 service? The robot.txt file that Trap17 has forbids webcrawlers from accessing that part of the forum section. Therefore, the only way others can know your email address is by accessing that section manually--by human.
If you have been receiving extra spam in your email account please let us know.
Meanwhile, you can always help yourself in changing the email address so instead of aks92mj9@example.com you could make aks92mj9 /at/ example /dot/ com just like someone would do on the web. There is no strict restriction on changing your registration layout, just keep the information intact.
I don't know whether I have been getting MORE spam, but I didn't realize the fact that a robots.txt file could block them. And besides, who says that the spambots have to follow the file? Thanks Dooga for that suggestion.
it's a problem of every forum,i just know punbb got a plugin that change the @ to # ,that may be prevent the addresses from bots. or you can use the censorship to change the @ to # or something else,i just known that IPB commercial have got the function of censorship from it's 1.3 version,and that's sure on 2.1.4 also.
spaming level is update,and the control method also improving,.now we can not got rid of spams clearly.
I am looking at different solutions for paid hosting and I know that that trap17 has some connection
with a paid hosting company and I would like more info about it because I like the way this place is
run and it has been a good place to have my website. So what is the site for the paid hosting?...
Dear hosted members, We have noticed that many members are knowingly or unknowingly breaking some
basic rules of posting and hosting at T17. This has resulted in a lot of spam posts which in turn
lead to more unnecessary work for moderators and admins, 'defacement' of the foums and
sometimes even banning of the concerned member. The rules are there and you are also there. But
have you read them? Usually, if you have read the rules and understood them, it is not expected
that you break them voluntarily. This however can be expected of some unscrupulous eleme...
I would like to close my hosting account because I am moving to a new paid host but I am unsure how
to close the account so that if I need to in the future I can open it without having negative
credits. (I realize that all my info from my site will be wiped and if I reopen it will be from
scratch and Ill probably need to get the 30 creds again and what not)...
I currently don't have the time to keep up with this forum and a website in addition to my job.
So, how would I delte my hosting account? I don't want to delete my trap17 forum account, I
like the discussions here, and I may want to try a website gain someday, but right now I don't
have the time. Is it possible to keep my forum account but have my hosting account deleted? Thanks
for any and all info!!! Byron Arnold...
OMG ok, so i logged into my gmail account and shabam, 400 new messages, 100 to my inbox 300marked as
spam, turns out some kind of sex pill or something company is using the email
randomname@have-heart.net to spam people, since i have all my email accounts pointed to my gmail
adress.... heres a copy of one of the spam messages i received back QUOTE ----- The
following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- (reason: 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to pop3.ymail.net.: >>> DATA ... User
unknown 550...
I am in the negative points as we speak here just to state that. I have had a couple times when I
have went negative because of certain reasons but I have been way to busy lately to do anything but
my personal life. I can't afford to come check here and post as often as I used to. So my
question then would be is there any way I can get my account changed to free hosting with the text
ad? I would really like to not have to make a whole new account and lose all of the stuff from my
hosting now and also my forum account. If it is needed that I post up enough to get pos...
I am not sure.. Is the hosting of websites down in trap17.com My site
http://www.computerkindness.org is not loading. I checked it with,
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and it tells me, the site is down. Can someone provide me more
info on this. thanks....
Many members ask about the matter of hosting credits. Trap17 staff have explained hosting credits
clearly on the site, but if you're not paying attention, have any questions, or need more, here
are some points that will answer your questions. Due to a few user comments, I have had to add a
few more points, and edited some previous points to be a bit more clearer. This is in addition to
the additions mods have made to the posts, which I greatly thank you for. 1. READ THE FORUMS BEFORE
YOU POST A CREDIT QUESTION!!! How many times have the Admins of Trap17...
I was just wondering if something changed in the way that the hosting credits work here... because
I'm pretty sure that I had enough credits to last a few more days, cause I built up a bunch the
last time I was here... but since I noticed that I haven't gotten many hits today, I checked my
site to see if it was still up and running. That tends to be how I see if I need to get back over
here and posting. Well, I can understand if I ran out of points, cause it certainly wouldn't be
the first time... but what's getting me is that my site has been down less ...
hey all, it was about one hour ago that my website stopped working, apart from my home page which
is 30 bytes and not even proper html (a temp page). around 15mins later, a200 noticed he had the
same problem. then, the cpanel stopped working, followed promptly by the ftp. when i try to access
the cpanel now, i get the following message: QUOTE Sorry for the inconvenience! The
filesystem mounted at / on this server is running out of disk space. cPanel operations have been
temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system adm...
Hi, My website is down. Domain: ramansingla.info I am certain that it's a problem from your
end as I have checked this from multiple online servers that my site isn't accessible. I
haven't changed anything. All of a sudden it was no where....
This is first time i uploaded my website(i was happy). Now iam nervous. I cannot see my website
after upload. My website name is cncinfotech. When i typed domain cncinfotech.trap17.com it show
apache welcome message. My domain is www.cncinfotech.uni.cc QUOTE Great Success ! Apache is
working on your cPanelŽ and WHM™ Server I already uploaded my index page in public_html
folder. I asked to each by chat. Everyone tell we are able to see your website. Every one said me
"Your website title is silverside" ,"Your website based on forex". There are detail rela...
Hi, When I try to create an email account in the CPanel, I get this error QUOTE The e-mail
account xxxxxxxx@ wildcatexotics.com with the login Sorry, you have exceeded the maximum allowed
email accounts. and password xxxxxxxx with a quota of unlimited megabytes was successfully created.
Can anybody help me out? And also My default email account is xxxxx@xxxx.com, but when I sent
myself an email from another account, I didn't receive any. Thank you...
Good day! I have some questions about my hosting account. I have been idle for quite some time
and unfortunately, I wasn't able to gather enough credits so my hosting got suspended (after my
credits reached negative). Last weekend I gathered enough (around 10 credits) so my website could be
reactivated again. I was told by my friend yesterday that my site was now accessible however, I
realized that it was only my main page that has been activated, the subdomains were not. Whenever I
try to access it, a trap suspended page keeps on appearing. Can anyone please exp...
Imagine that trap17 can offer 17 megs of free hosting to any member registered to this forums. I
mean, 17 megs of space shoudn't be too much fot this huge hosting company like trap17. You would
only need to geather 100 credits on forums, with ultra quality posts and you can get your 17 megs of
space for at least one year. I think it's great idea, don't you? /dry.gif"
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Today, I have managed to screw some 10 hosting accounts. It was my mistake by running the script
while we're in the transition from Process v1.0 to Manage v2.0 Hosting Account System. For your
information we will be using trap17.com/manage instead of the process page from now on. Due to my
unfortunate action, OpaQue has quickly restored those 10 accounts but their hosting credits cannot
be certain. If you notice any hosting credits incorrectly stating in your account please PM me
directly and I will make things right and true. Again, I sincerely apologize for my a...
I was wondering if it is possible to do the following thing with my trap17 account. Since school
has come by again I keep finding it harder and harder to keep my credits up because a lot of nights
I don't even get to look at the computer. I also have noticed that I am not really using trap17
for hosting a lot of websites but more files and such not. I was wondering if I am able to
downgrade my account for the time being to the account with the "One text ad" version. But a
question on that, that I have is: if I host an image with my account that way and put the ima...
I've been wondering for a while now, since the amount of days is hardly piece to achieve. Are
the days we get for our account fewer when applying for the hosting package 2, comparing applying to
the hosting package 1. Theoritical it would make sense, because it requires 20 more credits for the
package 2. If we posting a post in the forum do we achieve more days for that post if we having
package 1? If thats the case, are there any opportunity for downgrading to a package 1 account?...
I am trying put my scripts on my site and i upload all scripts to my ftp i put outside all files
like u cplanel and all other i put them there then i went my phpmyadmin and uploaded the db it
didn't work so i deleted the trap17 html index file or what ever that thing is now says 404
error can soemone please help me my website is clan-cw.trap17.com...
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wana host a forum to get members and stuff. so can someone plz tell me on how to code a forum or
creat a forum using trap17 cpanel or any other way....
I have this problem for at least a week now. I bought 6 months woth of credits because i am going to
be out of town for some time and wont have computer access. So I decided to buy some credits so my
site can stay up and not go down. It has been at least a week now and i have not gotten any reply
from anyone at xisto sales and i went to the help desk and put a ticket in but i have not gotten any
reply from them. So I am posting this topic to see if any admin will be able to slove my problem. If
any admin needs proof that i payed for the 6 months credits you can pm me....
Yesterday I had positive credits, I'm not sure the exact number but it doesn't matter. If
you take a look at the screny below, in less than 24 hours I lost at least 4 credits. If yo check,
I'm sure you'll find none of my posts were put into spam or deleted. ...
I am trying to upload my Content Management System to my website but I am having some issues. I need
a good FTP client that is stable and will allow me to upload about 5mb of files to a directory in
under half an hour. I have tried lots, too many to name, If you would kindly tell me which apps to
be using for fast and stable transfers. I wish I could connect it to it by going in Windows
explorer: ftp://ftp.bradley908.trap17.com/ As that is apparently very fast and easy drag and drop
to transfer. Some Apps I have tried. SMART FTP FILEZILLA WS FTP SW FTP LE ...
you can run ASP.NET in Apache using either Opensource Apache modules or commercial packages. here
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Apache::ASP - GPL * * Chili!Soft ASP - Commercial * * ModVB - GPL * * mod_mono -
Apache License * * OpenASP Module - Apache License hope Opaque finds any of these solutions
feasable and provide the hosted memebers the facility to host ASP pages in their sites....
For some time I have been noticing too many patterns in problems with hosting accounts and their
passwords. We have a topic that started here:
http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51508 As I manage to regain the control to these
accounts I began to notice some odd incidences. Namely, I have been noticing that the last IP to
enter these hosting accounts had similar origin location. The origination is from Vietnam. And
account effected are passwords with simple and dictionary related passwords. I will be dealing with
the culprit. In the mean time, dear host...
Hello all, I'm getting to the stage where I require extra memory and in time bandwidth. I
understand this is available once you are above 30 hosting credits but how does it come about? Once
you have reached this milestone does it automatically upgrade your account or is there something we
are required to do? What then happens if you go into this additional memory/bandwidth and you the
slip below the 30 days hosting credits? Thanks for your time. stevethedog...
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