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Fighting against spams
 Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:43 pm
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We started to get heavily spammed today. I had to disable guest posting and delete the spams.
I hate the idea of disabling guest posting, though, but for the moment I can't find another solution. What would be nice is to be able to filter guest-posting based on keywords. It should be sufficient to fight most spams. I'll be looking for modules/code related to that. If you know of any, please mention it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:24 pm
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I wrote a custom message filter now.
Testing :
viagra sex casino phentermine blah blah
It works for registered users, not for guests!
Re-enabling guest posting. Will see.
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- Joined: 10 Apr 2002
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:03 pm
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Great! Although, I don't think guest posting does much good (occasional spam outweights it IMO), but having it enabled and avoiding spam at the same time is best, of course.
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:10 pm
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Not entirely on-topic but I spent the last few days searching the old posts for spams and deleted a few hundred of them. Casino / Witches / Arthritis / Texas Hold'em / Poker should be gone forever... I eventually ran out of things to search for :) and it was a good way to find some random old threads to read.
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