[squeakland] Re: forum spam

[Dave Bauer]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM, JOHN VOIKLIS<voiklis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Delegation can work in a situation like that. Unless you can find a
plugin that is used to block suspsicous IP addresses, manual approval
is the only good way to prevent this type of manual attack.

Dave

> --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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -------------------- m2f --------------------
>>> >
>>> > (from forum)
>>> > http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9621#9621
>>> >
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