On Friday 19 May 2006 09:29, Tobias Gerschner wrote: > 2006/5/19, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just thought I would comment quickly on the wiki. > > Following the efforts of Reid (oreo_masta), back around Christmas time, > > the serious spamming issues are a thing of the past. > > Checking the wiki logs, there has been no spam in there since the end of > > December :) > > Hurray ! > > > A great job done there - I know Reid put a lot of effort into working out > > a way to prevent the spamming problem - which, at its height, was keeping > > both Reid and myself busy full time deleting the junk posts. > > Which raises the question whether there isn't any kind of plugins for > boards especially ours available to prevent such things ??? Anybody > keen to research this :D > > cheers
I would imagine if there is, that whoever has the access to the IPB website could look/ask in there? A purpose built IPB module would be more likely to integrate into the forum than a third party add-on I expect. Currently, I am working along the same sort of lines as we used with the wiki prior to Reids fixes - blocking IPs which appear more than once, blocking regularly used spammer names, deleting spam and posters manually. At the moment, its not overly bad - averaging one or two per day at most. If it increases, then this may become a serious issue. Sadly, whatever means of communication is used - email, wiki, forum - spammers will see it as fair game. Take the dev list - at least two recent obvious spamming messages posted to it. With the recent controversy surrounding BlueSecurity - where the spammers DDOSed huge sections of the internet to force the closure of the BlueSec site - you can see that spammers are winning the war :( Because most of these spammers are based in countries which do not take action - you know who they are - and use compromised Windows boxes to send out their crap, they operate without fear of retalliation. Answers? Well, get those countries to act tough on spammers (unlikely to happen) or educate the owners of Microsoft products. Converting them to Linux or Macs would be great - but its not going to happen. So if we meet Windows users, we all need to explain the basic security of their systems to them - how to firewall and check for crud etc. /rant ;) Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
