Hi, Is the spam from automated bots, or from real humans? Or are we talking of really poor quality posts along the lines of "PLZ HLP URGENT!!!"?
At least in the past the automated bots very blocked fairly easily by our external user management system. Basically bots tailored for PhpBB could not get through. At least for Trac this extra layer of security/obfuscation seems to help a lot; we occasionally get spam attachments to the front page, but so those can be deleted quickly because urlwatch notifies me of all front page modifications. -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock > Spam filtering is hard. > > Moderators wanted. > > Eric (forum admin) > >> On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Jeff Boyce <jbo...@meridianenv.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 12/18/2015 1:52 AM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: >>> Samuli Seppänen wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Jeff Boyce <jbo...@meridianenv.com >>>>> <mailto:jbo...@meridianenv.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is there a Forum moderator listening here, or someone else that >>>>> might >>>>> know what special incantation or secret password (sarcasm) is >>>>> needed to >>>>> get a message posted on the OpenVPN Forum? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> No idea. But I too tried to post a few times and posts went to a >>>>> blackhole called moderation. It seems the forum has a mind of its own. >>>>> Anyway forums are not my cup-of-tea so not misisng anything. >>>>> >>>>> If you have a genuine question about openvpn usage, you are more than >>>>> likely to get a sane response here. >>>>> >>>>> Selva >>>> >>>> Hmm, it seems we may have to do something about the forums. For a >>>> long while I assumed the guys maintaining the forums can manage by >>>> themselves, but apparently that is no longer the case. I've heard >>>> anecdotal evidence that are very few moderators, which would explain >>>> the black hole... >>> I've not posted anything to the forum in well over a year - mostly due >>> to the fact that I was under the impression that the forum software >>> would be upgraded "soon" . >>> I was considering posting to the forum again more frequently, but I'm >>> not in the mood to post to black holes ;) >>> IOW: let's address this issue ASAP so that we can provide better >>> support again :) >>> >>> JJK >> Well, I see that my issue was finally posted to the forum. Although I >> don't expect anyone to see it at this point. Posted on the day before >> Christmas, and with the original date stamp of Dec. 2nd, which means it >> was buried 4 pages down the list. If the moderators are going to hold >> something that long, they should at least modify the posted date (is >> this possible?) so that it shows up at the top of the list when they >> release it. I really didn't mean to stir up such an issue / debate >> regarding the forum, I was just wondering what happened to my post. I >> think I will bring my issue back to this list. I prefer not to cross >> post, so maybe I will just post a link to the forum post since it is >> quite long and detailed. I do my homework trying to resolve my own >> issues, but sometimes still get stuck and need someone with more >> knowledge than I possess so I try to provide all the details necessary >> to help with the solution. >> >> Jeff Boyce >> www.meridianenv.com >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Openvpn-users mailing list >> Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
