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FECKIN SPAMMERS!
Circuitbenders:
This is probably a long shot but does anyone know of any reliable method of stopping spammers signing up to this forum? At the moment i'm having to delete about 20-30 accounts every day with email addresses such as XXXX@viagra.com or similar. I'm assuming that most of these sign ups are automatic as they never get verified because the email address doesn't actually exist, so whats the point of them?
I've already banned every registration from a .ru email and a few other suspect ones but other than needing every registration to be approved by hand i don't see what can be done about it?
any ideas?
gmeredith:
I think the only way is to do member verification approval, most of the Yahoo forums I'm in have had to do it that way. I've seen one forum completely destroyed by spam.
Cheers, Graham
Circuitbenders:
Its getting a bit daft now.
137 attempted registrations from banned known spammer emails. IP's and domains in the last 2 days! :-\
Luka:
we just keep banning common extensions of their email address
and also make sure that users cant post urls until they reach a certain amount of posts
Signal:Noise:
We've got a big problem with spammers over at FSOR, had to delete around 20 post of utter shit just today.
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