Re: *WARNING* IMPORTANT MESSAGE for all people using "free email" accounts.

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The "free email" ban will not be enacted. There was a very fiery discussion last night about it, and alternative measures will be devised instead.

[golgoj4]

good.

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Some spam prevention modules have been installed. In theory they should make life hard for the spammers, but should be OK for real people. I never used these before, so I have no idea if they'll behave themselves. If they misbehave, please drop me a line.

[Beeker]

I agree lets stop those spamming idiots in there track they recently hijacked another forum  I use and completely destroyed it, so if we can put policy's and procedures in place to keep these idiots at bay from causing havoc then I am all for it.........Its about time we try and clean up the internet and get it back to what it was designed for and that is the sharing of information, not cluttered by useless ad's for Viagra etc

Regards
Beeker

[davegravy]

Testing...

Ok, so no "per post" human verification apparently.

[MDH1966]

Thank you.

M.

[marrandy]

Some spam prevention modules have been installed. In theory they should make life hard for the spammers, but should be OK for real people. I never used these before, so I have no idea if they'll behave themselves. If they misbehave, please drop me a line.

Is there a option to moderate (or captcha) the first 'x' e.g. 5 posts of new members on SMF ?

This will usually block spammers that break through the other new account systems.

Worth checking into.  Security and anti-spam requires a layered system.  As they get more clever, you adjust and change the layers.

[valent]

Some spam prevention modules have been installed. In theory they should make life hard for the spammers, but should be OK for real people. I never used these before, so I have no idea if they'll behave themselves. If they misbehave, please drop me a line.

Do you know which plugins exactly got installed? I have other forum that I co-admin so that I can take a look at them.

Thanks.

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Some spam prevention modules have been installed. In theory they should make life hard for the spammers, but should be OK for real people. I never used these before, so I have no idea if they'll behave themselves. If they misbehave, please drop me a line.

Do you know which plugins exactly got installed? I have other forum that I co-admin so that I can take a look at them.

Thanks.

httpBL, Stop Spammer, from http://custom.simplemachines.org/

The services they use will probably give you some hints on similar modules for other forum platforms.

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Some spam prevention modules have been installed. In theory they should make life hard for the spammers, but should be OK for real people. I never used these before, so I have no idea if they'll behave themselves. If they misbehave, please drop me a line.

Is there a option to moderate (or captcha) the first 'x' e.g. 5 posts of new members on SMF ?

This will usually block spammers that break through the other new account systems.

Worth checking into.  Security and anti-spam requires a layered system.  As they get more clever, you adjust and change the layers.

I'm still trying to find modules that do this. I'm not doing any coding myself yet (no time to do it). Still hoping others did it already. There is a SMF addon that imposes post-count restrictions on links, like if you're under a certain number of posts, your links get either mangled (have to copy/paste them and reconstruct them manually) or get a nofollow attribute (so no page rank for you).

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New users won't be able to edit their profiles until they reach 4 posts. They'll be caught before reaching this number anyway.