LinuxMusicians

We are using a captcha system for signups right now that has pretty much eliminated bots. I think all the current spammers are actually "real-live" spammers, so there's not a whole lot we can do about it except our current system of deleting them as soon as we find them. The problem is tha...

please, stop spam... maybe with captcha... the rss feed coming from this forum is 90% spam
thanks

Danke

Unfortunately Spammers are difficult or impossible to control through completely automatic means. I've been a moderator on other boards and it's really a never-ending job to try and keep up with it. Thanks to Nathan and the other moderators for keeping it as clean as it is.

I think the admins should check each day which new members are registered. It's easy to see who is a spammer and it would be nice if those could be removed before they can do any harm...

thanks

I think spam will be an issue no matter what software we use. Currently, we're looking into some more plugins that will help keep spam to a minimum. SMF is good software (I'm a moderator on another SMF board, and I used to run ...

I think spam will be an issue no matter what software we use. Currently, we're looking into some more plugins that will help keep spam to a minimum. SMF is good software (I'm a moderator on another SMF board, and I used to run ...

Hi,

I know we've have updated this board recently, but phpbb seems very interesting for spam/ bot etc.

Isn't is wise to change to another service in the future?

for example
http://www.simplemachines.org/
or isn't that better?

@khz I sent a PM, did you get it? Regarding spam...yes, things did seem pretty good after I installed the new captcha system, but it looks like as we get more hits...we're getting more spam. Pretty normal, I guess. Once we get another moderator ...

@MattKingUSA && @/linuxmusicians admin
ist that a way to keep spam away?
http://www.phpbbinstallers.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=28
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=435702
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cheers khz

Would be nice if we'll protected better against spam. We where in control some time...

Maybe add a forum rule... no digits at the end of your username, or you will get an email and will be removed. All the spammers have it I think...

That means I have to change my name too...

is there any chance to keep the spammer away, it sucks.
cheers khz

... posting accounts with random nicknames from bots... You (we) have to update to a more recent version of phpbb. There are a lot of security and spam issues fixed. I (we) had the same problem with the forum.jacklab.net but now the situation is fine. If you need help, I'm sure gimpel @ irc.freenode.net ...

Maybe you should remove 'other' in linux distro... too?

A lot of spam there

... which is really useful thread'... I think the moderators could be more active to manage the forum. There are a lot of suggestions done... Also the spam users should be removed, it is easy to see which is a bolt....