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What is the best way to eliminate Spam Users who post objectionable websites from logging into my server. I end up deleting about 20 names every day.

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Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:22 pm
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Add some spam controls and additional user reg steps. Most of those come from automated robots so if you do something to mess up the robot...

There's a whole host of spam control mods for phpbb if that's what you're using. Google for phpbb mods, you'll find em.

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Thank you. I'll start looking now.

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Also on a side note Sage, some of the newer spam bots can crack the extra login stuff that the captia puts in to stop bots. I am having the same issues, but now have went to running a couple of different captia's on my test forum to see if they are going to work if they work then will put the combined setup on my forums, I have a captia on it now but it don't get all the spam, so have went to admin approval option, I now screen the requests and either deny or approve of them myself now.

Most are still spam

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Most spam is form spam, posting directly to your post URL. There's a mod that adds a tag to messages and then won't accept posts unless it has that tag, this eliminates automated form spam.

It's important, also, to use a silent denial. If you say "You've been banned because of spam!" their prog can use that and make a new account. If it doesn't tell them, their prog won't know it wasn't posted.

The spam words option is also nice. You'll notice that 90% of your spam is for the same set of products. If you deny posting to people w/ those words in combination w/ any kind of link then you know it's spam.

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