Spambots...

[DieHard]

Ok, so even after having honeypots and other items in place, it seems we were attracting a lot of spammers.

Thanks goes out to Knez for providing a very effective "Clean-Talk" key that will hopefully keep all the glorious porn and prescription drug links to a minimum.

Thanks again Knez

[hoovers@dawn]

we dont need no viagra  especially when its well known that os9lives users are well known to need an old mac operating sytem to get them hard....

[Knezzen]

Looks like it's working quite well

[DieHard]

Looks like it's working quite well

Yes oh great one, moderator reports down 95%

[FBz]

Yes, something seems to be working!

Bots and SPAMMERS?

No posts yet but - they’re here …this morning.

[hoovers@dawn]

Yes, something seems to be working!

Bots and SPAMMERS?

No posts yet but - they’re here …this morning.

careful they might start using straight generic names now...

or movie titles "DieHard 2" "Predator" "RoboCop" etc 

[Knezzen]

They where probably registered before the spamfilters where in place. It might be a good idea to clean up all users with 0 posts or all the users with email addresses flagged as spam by the filter.

[IIO]

Yes, something seems to be working!

Bots and SPAMMERS?

No posts yet but - they’re here …this morning.

i am pretty sure that "George Ttextd", "Mary Annxt" and "Louel Lapf" are simply their real names.

say hi to our new members from konsonanzhistan!

[Knezzen]

I'm not sure what settings DieHard put it, but the bots can be shut down at registering instead of when tryting to post. Depends on the settings put in.

[Knezzen]

DieHard: You need to look over the spamfilter settings and update the anti-spam plugin if you haven't already. There's bots incoming from what it looks like.

[DieHard]

DieHard: You need to look over the spamfilter settings and update the anti-spam plugin if you haven't already. There's bots incoming from what it looks like.

Or I can just hang myself... damn bots... this weekend is the time for that, PM me what to look for

[IIO]

is this software supprts some form of "first post must be approved by mod", this is imho always the best opinion with the least work.

only mods see the posts, and if it spam, they just do nothing.

[DieHard]

is this software supprts some form of "first post must be approved by mod", this is imho always the best opinion with the least work.

only mods see the posts, and if it spam, they just do nothing.

Problem is, if we are not diligent, then a new user that may need immediate help doesn't get it, but I will thank about that

[Knezzen]

Or I can just hang myself... damn bots... this weekend is the time for that, PM me what to look for

PM sent!