Spammers .. the fight goes on!

[Muz]

A moment of thanks for you guys when spam is reported

Here is my admin screen shot for the spam control plugin that I use, Ive just deleted some old logs, and what you see here are the spam registrations for the last 30 days only !!!! have a look at the number top right

spamscreen.jpg

[Stock]

Muz when you report a poster as a spammer do they go on to a blacklist or such for other forums............or does each forum fight it own spam war........

[Muz]

Muz when you report a poster as a spammer do they go on to a blacklist or such for other forums............or does each forum fight it own spam war........

Many forums report spam to a central database, its this database that the forum checks to see if a registrant has a history and they get refused entry if they have form. I dont contribute spammers to this at the moment but it isnt too hard to set up, and with it being so well documented elsewhere I dont feel the compulsion to do so

That first pic looked a bit fuzzy so I'm trying to upload a better one

[Muz]

BAWS .. dunno why that looks fuzzy .. anyway you get the message 10,000 spammers rejected in the last 30 days

[Muz]

Hi Folks .. we are still getting the odd spammer in .. which causes me to do a bit of deletion work .. I dont mind this ofcourse, but I want to keep the forum free of spammers for you guys... so .. if you see any just hit the black triangle at the bottom left of their post

I delete a lot of wasters as they come in .. the antispam takes care of the other thousand ....

[ianoz]

Will do Muz ,Forum has been a bit quiet of late .Things are Quiet around here ,so have not been able to add much myself ,bar the odd joke .

[245dlc]

Thanks for the hard work you do Muz to keep the spammers away but I have to agree with Ian that the forum is pretty quiet lately except for my posts as of late. Hope your doing well.

[Muz]

Well on the upside theres one or two new registrants every day

[Muz]

And the fight goes on thanks to ianoz last week for highlighting a nasty Russian one who managed to fill the forum with 60 posts in 30 minutes .. so hopefully none of you guys were inconvenienced too much as I got it cleared up ... but its a proper shit storm when it happens. Ive re enabled a secondary line of defence for new registrants until this one blows over as I have seen a rise in spammage lately .. so just click the report button (black triangle) if you see anything people

[Stock]

'Tis a tough fight but someone need to do it..............keep up the good work