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Peter McKercher
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Post by Peter McKercher »

Keeping spammers at bay is a daily job for you mike. I see FRANKVUK is still on as a member due to his use of an automated enrollment program to assault the board hourly. What is the value to him to be listed as a member?
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Post by mikeyr »

Yeah, he was particularly bad. Hitting me every hour on the hour for 3 days before I gave up and left his username there.

Their point is to get their WWW addresses listed as members of the forum, then when the search engines search the forums, they see their URL's and go index their URLs as well. Its a method they use to get indexed by search engines and its quite nasty. Usually I only get 2 or 3 a day, got to a point last week where we were getting a dozen a day.

I tried banning this Frank guy, I tried banning his IP and I tried banning his e-mail address, his program was quite sophisticated and would change them just enough to get the past the ban's. But by removing ALL his information, e-mail, URL, etc. and leaving his name there, his program sees the name is valid and he leaves us alone, took me 4 days to figure it out but it worked.

New version of this forum will fix it as there is a "question" that needs to be answered, the question and answer is written by me and I just tell the answer in the question, a person will read it and answer it but a program is too stupid to figure out what the answer is...hoping that fixes it.

Of course its only a temporary fix, spammers and porn people will figure out a way around it eventually.
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