Knock knock!
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
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. |
Dave Higton (1515) 3497 posts |
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? |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8154 posts |
Wasn’t there a block on post/signup from certain ISPs done a while back? |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
If you try to sign up, you’ll see:
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? |
Chris Mahoney (1684) 2165 posts |
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. |
Dave Higton (1515) 3497 posts |
More clicks = more ads served = more revenue, so no. This is why we can’t have nice things. |
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
@Rick He did, but I don’t know how long he waited. The good news is that WiFi “started working”!
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Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
Thanks to whoever made it happen. |