[squeakland] Re: forum spam

[JOHN VOIKLIS]

Does the forum software make it possible to turn on some referee
function. This would place a fairly large burden on the person running
the forum, but it will keep the spammers out or, at least, inert.

Then again, I don't really mind deleting unwanted messages.

--J

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pato Acevedo<patitoacevedo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> +1
>
> Please stop the spam.
>
> Cheers
> Pato Acevedo
>
>
>> From: randy.goldenberg at gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:07:21 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [squeakland] Re: forum spam
>> To: squeakland at squeakland.org
>>
>> There have been 8 spam messages from the same person this morning.
>> This is more than occasional spam. I would appreciate it very much if
>> the cause of this relatively recent development was removed. I have no
>> problem with reading the forum if I want to contribute to the forum.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:46 AM, teefal<squeakland-forum at squeakland.org>
>> wrote:
>> > An update on the forum spam issue ...
>> >
>> > Humans are registering for the spam accounts, which makes it a tough
>> > problem. I have two options that I know of:
>> >
>> > 1) make it so only mailing list subscribers can post to the forum and
>> > have
>> > it sent to the mailing list
>> >
>> > This is a sad option, since most of our talent is in the mailing list
>> > now,
>> > and most of our new people will be on the forums. This will require
>> > mailing
>> > list people to also read the forums to catch new non-list posts.
>> >
>> > 2) upgrade to PHPBB3 and lose the mailing list / forum sync
>> >
>> > PHPBB3 has new features to combat human spammers. Mail2Forum only works
>> > with
>> > PHPBB2. They're working on PHPBB3, but until then we'd have a split
>> > between
>> > forums & mailing list (neither sees the other).
>> >
>> > 3) keep things as they are until Mail2Forum supports PHPBB3
>> >
>> > This means the occasional spam message until then.
>> >
>> > 4) find some other solution
>> >
>> > Any thoughts would be helpful.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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