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If you met someone who was responsible for sending these spambots into the world, what would you do?
(Voting closed: May 10, 2007, 01:22:33 AM)
| Explain to them that they are a blight on the Web |
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| Explain to them that they are a blight on the Web, then kick them hard |
1 (33.3%) |
| Just punch them in the face and walk away? |
2 (66.7%) |
| Nothing. Just being them is punishment enough. |
0 (0%) |
| Spit in their drink when they're not looking. |
0 (0%) |
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Topic: What shall we do with these forum spammers? (Read 702 times)
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MissMurgatroyd
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Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. In the meantime it looks like every new member to the forum for the past two months has been a spambot. Can sys admin give bona fide full members the option to delete those accounts ourselves?
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smfadmin
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The spam bots are indeed a problem. I will meddle with the registration function and see if I can't get them to go away.
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smfadmin
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Okay, effective immediately, I must specifically approve all new members. If someone sounds like a spam bot, I will not let them in. If someone sounds legitimate, and they turn out to be a spammer, I will give them the boot. It's going to be lots of fun weeding through the spam, but if it will improve our board, I'm willing. We'll see how it works...
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MissMurgatroyd
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Thanks for looking into this. They're a real pain in the ayne, and life needs to be made difficult for them. A lot of the spambot email addresses look dodgy. Perhaps you need to start blocking certain ISPs, plus a lot of forum spam seems to originate in Russia so perhaps if people register with a .ru email address they have to go to additional steps to prove they are not spammers.
Perhaps there needs to be a registration confirmation email, thet needs a physically typed reply to activate? Or they have to answer a randomly generated trivia question? Nothing too difficult, just something that would flummox a robot.
(five bucks says the latest member Searchaab is a spambot)
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