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Re: Dealing with Spam
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2009, 11:23:10 am »
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Re: Dealing with Spam
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2009, 11:46:16 am »
Thanks Sibyl maybe that will help keep the riff raff out

i also notice the spammers using only this email @stroydocs.com

anybody seeing this in the email they used may as well kick them off.
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Re: Dealing with Spam
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2009, 12:27:22 pm »
Quote from: outlaw16151 on January 04, 2009, 11:46:16 am
Thanks Sibyl maybe that will help keep the riff raff out

i also notice the spammers using only this email @stroydocs.com

anybody seeing this in the email they used may as well kick them off.

They use many different email addresses and IPs
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Re: Dealing with Spam
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2009, 09:25:09 am »
Thanks for the info. Right now my forum is not being spammed. But just incase. :)
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Re: Dealing with Spam
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2009, 01:22:20 pm »
I am going to move this to the guides section of the forum. I originally posted this in General Discussion as a hope that it would get some attention, as well as encourage people to ask questions.

But now the influx has slowed down a little...but this still works as a good guide!
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Re: Dealing with Spam
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2009, 01:33:41 pm »
Good idea, it is sort of a guide to dealing with spam anyway, :D.
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Re: [Guide] Dealing with Spam
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2009, 04:28:52 pm »
i have put up a thing to stop it . i have only had one kid spam on my site and i just put a ban on the kid and that was it ;) good info thanks
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Re: [Guide] Dealing with Spam
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Re: [Guide] Dealing with Spam
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2010, 05:47:24 am »
Quote from: Tuberavens on December 22, 2008, 09:26:37 am
I set mine for Member Approval and they still get thru

Try other solutions.   There are many other solutions, not just editing the registration settings.  :-)

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Re: [Guide] Dealing with Spam
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2010, 04:42:50 am »
I'd like to find out more about what we can do with these people.  We can delete & ban but I'd really like to report people & get sites shut down.

Like for example I was using WordPress.  I have a contact me form but this form collects info like people's IP's.  I'm getting all kinds of spam...especially from hosts & people offering SEO services.

This one jerk's IP leads back to an ISP in India so I tried to report this spam to this company & got returned mail stating their mailbox is full or something like that.  If you can't report spam to an ISP...now what?  Who do you report this India based ISP to?  Any help would be much appreciated. :)   
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