Hi all, As you have probably noticed, the level of spamming on the forum is - whilst not awful - becoming annoying. Danny (Jofele) mentioned a spam which he spotted this afternoon and suggested we set up the forum so new members would need to be approved before posting. I have checked what options are available - and it boils down to a choice between -
a Email approval - the sort of thing where an automatic mail is sent to the email address given by the new member who must respond before permission is given to post and b Admin approval for the new member. Both have their disadvantages - For the email approval, I am not sure if the board will actually do that or not - it should, but whether this feature was enabled, I am not sure. I can test it if we decide on that option. For the Admin approval, it would mean extra work for the admins of the board. Not simply a case of permitting them, but to check the IP isn't a known spammer or open proxy etc. I would probably go with the email setup if it will work - and am happy to test it out if we can agree. Of course, we can continue as we are. The level of spam is not dreadful, around 2 or 3 some days - less others. However, a number of "dodgy" accounts have been setup over the last few months - many I have deleted as they were known spammer IPs, even though they had not actually posted. Anyway - comments welcomed. If I don't get any negative feedback I shall look into implementing email verification soon. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
