Author Topic: Increasing amount of spam  (Read 6561 times)

Offline Bloomy

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Increasing amount of spam
« on: June 14, 2011, 05:48:57 PM »
I have noticed there is becoming an ever more increasing amount of spam accounts
I think it needs to be adressed and i suggest maybe extra moderators or more security on registration





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Offline Jason

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Re: Increasing amount of spam
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2011, 06:43:32 PM »
To be honest mate it goes in waves

This one is a small one so far I have had them when 30 in one hour would have been a nice break  :Claugh:

Whatever security etc we put in place against spam bots is normally got around on the next wave so it is a hiding to nowhere

Naz does keep things up to date but it is a loosing battle

We do apreciate guys like you sending us mail so we can catch them ASAP but with the best will in the world we all have day/night jobs and can't be online all day

But thanks for the input mate

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Re: Increasing amount of spam
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2011, 07:09:28 PM »
Agreed with Jason, I've deleted rather a lot in the past 72 hours. It will go.

I know it's annoying but it's not like our forum is full of months old spam or full of porn links.

Offline XS

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Re: Increasing amount of spam
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2011, 08:00:03 PM »
The SMF version is woefully out of date, updating that helps a bit, but doesn't solve the problem.