Knock knock!

There’s a Stewart Russell on Mastodon who’s having problems with his WiFi but can’t sign up for a new account because of the spam problem…

He’s after wpa2 on a Linksys router.

Do you mean he can’t sign up for a new account on these fora? Doesn’t the page that he sees, tell him how to get an account?

Doesn’t the page that he sees, tell him how to get an account?

Wasn’t there a block on post/signup from certain ISPs done a while back?

If you try to sign up, you’ll see:

Sign-ups are temporarily disabled due to overwhelming spam attacks.
Contact webmaster -at- riscosopen -dot- org with enquiries. Note that heavy anti-spam filtering is being applied to this address so if you do not get a reply, it might be because your message was filtered to junk. This is checked every week or two.
(…this is why we can’t have nice things)

I absolutely agree with that last line.

So, I’d suggest sending a message to that address (probably not from one of the spammy addresses like GMail…) and being patient. It’s not an ideal situation, but things were getting out of hand, and did I mention that little line at the end?

The thing I find really annoying is that the big providers could do something about it if they wanted to. If Facebook, Twitter, Azure, AWS, Instagram, Tiktok and Snapchat all got together and had a policy saying “any ISP that makes no attempt to stop spam from leaving its network will get blocked from our networks” then the ISPs would fall over themselves to solve the problem.

The thing I find really annoying is that the big providers could do something about it if they wanted to. If Facebook, Twitter, Azure, AWS, Instagram, Tiktok and Snapchat all got together and had a policy saying “any ISP that makes no attempt to stop spam from leaving its network will get blocked from our networks” then the ISPs would fall over themselves to solve the problem.

More clicks = more ads served = more revenue, so no.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

@Rick He did, but I don’t know how long he waited.

The good news is that WiFi “started working”!

Stewart Russell …
… for reasons I don’t fully understand, RISC OS wifi works now.
I made sure the router had Security Mode: WPA2 Personal set, and it seems to like it

Thanks to whoever made it happen.