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Lots of posts recently about spammers hitting various forums' members. I searched and found many different mods to deal with it.
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- Antispam Registration Add-On 1.0 vs. CAPTCHA - Anti spam Does one have an advantage over the other?
- MarcelG's MOD: anti-spam E-mail filter 1.1 vs. Sonic's spamserver lock (admin pannel) Do these perform a similar function?
- GateKeeper - Antispam Anyone using this? Do your forum members mind answering the question to send out email?
- Anyone willing to share which mod(s) you're using? Would be good to know what combinations you're liking and finding effective. You may prefer to email me rather than post what your doing publicly
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It's just a robot that uses preset parameters (ie; forum brand, version, etc...) to find and register for forums, then make spam posts. Totally automated, but if you throw one little extra step in there it fouls them up.
Here is one of the main users/abusers...
http://seo-promotion.org/product2.htm
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Here is one of the main users/abusers...
http://seo-promotion.org/product2.htm
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The real problem, as I see it, is to get the safety into the code without making it obvious to the hackers what you are doing
We're not talking about hackers here, we're talking about spammers.
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Most spammers are hackers.Not hardly. Most are not. It's easy to be a spammer (just sign up for a forum and start sending it) , very difficult to be a hacker.
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I was more interested in pointing out that it is very difficult to use simple security methods with public code.If we were talking about hackers you would be correct.
It is very simple to stop most of the spammers with the Gatekeeper mod. One simple question that can be changed occasionally stops all the bots, which, at least on my forum, is 98% of them. We get very few manual spammers. Add Rui's mod and that stops 99% of the email spammers dead in their tracks, even if they sign up manually. So all that only leaves a very occasional manual spam post from a manual signup. Haven't had one in about 3 months. All this is accomplished very simply in about 30 minutes.
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MarshalMix,
do you have another email address that does not go through Godaddy, they are being a bunch of ****ers and have wrongly blacklisted my mailservers, even after repeated requests to remove them they just refuse to answer my emails. NO other blacklist contains my server IP's other than godaddy they are just being total arses.<
do you have another email address that does not go through Godaddy, they are being a bunch of ****ers and have wrongly blacklisted my mailservers, even after repeated requests to remove them they just refuse to answer my emails. NO other blacklist contains my server IP's other than godaddy they are just being total arses.<
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I use the Antispam Registration Add-On MOD which works well for preventing BOTS from registering accounts.
How hard would it be to add this feature when a users sends mail to another? This would help prevent BOTS.
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How hard would it be to add this feature when a users sends mail to another? This would help prevent BOTS.
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The GateKeeper mod does just that.
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