[squeakland] Re: forum spam

[Roman Zilber]

5) Moderation for posts from new members

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:46 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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