+1 -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Kuhnert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:24 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: [NOTICE] TapestryForums Spamming
Arghh! Can't we ban everything from tapestryforums? On 2/20/06, Apache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my friend ray who manages www.vidvox.com forum, came across this same > problem last week he told me. He spend like 20 hours deleteing off > spam message. > > this seems like a problem more severe then the surface. > > maybe this info can help you out that he told me. He couldn't deleted > all message from one IP, as the spams were all from multiple IP's > suggesting advance proxy and distributive networking. > > he did a search on diff forums, this problem seems to started on > dozens of forums during the last week. the spam messages have similiar > and same messages. Meaning its prolly from the same data set of spam > messages. or same source. this also might suggest its from a bot. > > the "bot" also was able to tunnel through there other forum's > registrations process, there for posting as real users and not guests. > === bad. > > > seems to me that someone finally made a forum bot to spam ppl. Even if > you were to nuke the forum, i think this problem will still be here. > > it sucks cuz you cant even set a hammer limit per IP, since it uses > proxying. > > maybe we could set up a filter set that scans all posts for keyword > identifiers pulled from a black list, along with a white list to > prevent wanted posts from getting elminated. > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Sent from www.TapestryForums.com > > Read this topic online here: <<topic_link>> > > http://www.tapestryforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=14443#14443 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
