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Experimental SLV module for Spam-X

Authored by: destr0yr on Monday, July 31 2006 @ 10:25 pm EDT

Does this (SpamX) also block new user signups coming from various sources? Today alone I had 29 new user signups which have the ability to receive the welcome email, post comments and make my life life that much more frustrating. I've restored to using the user submission queue and deleting the users until I can find an alternative...

Suggestions are welcome :)

PS. I'm glad to see Geeklog's continued dedication to spam prevention and quick responses to any and all security issues. As always, keep up the excellent work.

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Experimental SLV module for Spam-X

Authored by: LWC on Tuesday, August 01 2006 @ 02:02 pm EDT

If only my patch would have been implemented, at least Geeklog wouldn't have basically handed over your e-mail address to anyone (or in this case, anything) that wants it.

Experimental SLV module for Spam-X

Authored by: destr0yr on Tuesday, August 01 2006 @ 11:42 pm EDT

My issue is not so much that they have the email address (my spamassassin config works fairly well and is appropriately trained), it's that these users are signing up in the first place and before enabling the user submission queue, were able to post multiple spam-related comments to various stories. Now that the user submission queue is enabled the comment spam is gone; however, I am still stuck with deleting 10-30 spam/bot created users every damned day which IMHO, is a PITA.

In any case, your hack looks great and its should be added into GL! I'll be adding that to my sites immediately.

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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams

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-- destr0yr
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams

Experimental SLV module for Spam-X

Authored by: Dirk on Wednesday, August 02 2006 @ 04:58 pm EDT

Geeklog doesn't run new user signups through Spam-X and I'm not sure if it should. I mean, all we have from the user at that point is the name and email address - that's not a lot of information to base any decision on.

A blacklist for certain email addresses may help somewhat, as may CAPTCHAs (of which I'm not a big fan). In the end, these accounts are created to spam and my - possibly naive - hope is that when the spammers see that that is not successful (because Spam-X is doing it's job with the spam) they may give up that approach. But then again we're bombarded with un-obfuscated "viagra" spam every day of which not a single one ever made it through ...

bye, Dirk

spam domains

Authored by: HerreVermeer on Wednesday, September 06 2006 @ 11:39 pm EDT

I have had some trouble with spam comments too on my website, but not too much, only one every 3-4 days. I don´t bother turning anonymous posting off, because deleting it manually isn´t that much effort.

What is more bothering me tough is that spam users keep signing up, and the number keeps raising every day. I want to keep my website kind of clean, and there´s nbothing that stops it.

I have noticed tough that all spam users seem to have the same domain: @mistacronks.net, so maybe adding an option to block certain domains or e-mail adresses could be a good solution (or to allow only certain domains)... I have no clue how to do php however, but it should not be too hard...

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spam domains

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, September 07 2006 @ 01:55 am EDT

Search the forums for "mistacronks" - lots of discussions (and suggested patches) about this.

bye, Dirk

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