Can't you just remove the spamer account with all his posts? On 8/31/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote: > More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really > busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum). > > The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting > admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have > things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the > forum proper (and no time to make this happen). > > The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and "admins" > are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will > so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle. > > The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about > this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand > that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last > called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have > died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a > month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it > was auto-filtered to spam. > > I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over > 500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a > time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to > remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer / > user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every > message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability. > > On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> So you got feedback from them, and they denied? >> >> I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the >> cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like >> OOoMath and such. >> >> On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>>> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>>>> I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam. >>>> As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several >>>> experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one >>>> moderator to handle on his own. >>> I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are >>> not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum >>> which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to tell >>> the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a >>> conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and >>> can't promote users to moderators. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrea. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> >> > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
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