[RAS] robot subscribers

[Christian Zimmermann]

I see daily the following in the RAS logs:

  10:05:44 Philippos Philippos Philippos, - none - session (new-user)

     * login: AugustinosHolivy75 at gmail.com
     * userdata file: 
/home/aras/acis/userdata/a/u/augustinosholivy75 at gmail.com.xml
     * IP: 85.187.15.249
     * sesid: 6bca5f6d

Log [type] class - action 	description
new-user

     * login: AugustinosHolivy75 at gmail.com
     * file: /home/aras/acis/userdata/a/u/augustinosholivy75 at gmail.com.xml
     * IP: 85.187.15.249

new-user

     * humanname: Philippos Philippos Philippos, - none -

request - handled

     * screen: new-user

request - handled

     * screen: new-user/additional


Names changes, but are always identical for first, middle and last names, 
IPs change, emails change, but are always of hotmail/gmail/yahoo and have 
a composite name with some digits. It never gets past the first screen.

To me this looks like some robot trying to register (much like what I see 
on our blog) in order to get posting priviledges. This is not something 
that we need to worry about as the following registration pages are very 
specific to us. But we should keep this in mind for any further 
development that registration should stay robot safe.


Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
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