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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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