6/9/2006
Stop Forum Spam
Spammers have now moved from email spam to blog comment spam to forum spam. I have received several complaints of dozens of daily messages posted to public forums. One enterprising spammer has been posting advertisement for his forum spamming services with links to an email address for contacting him.
If you have a low volume forum, you can subscribe to all new posts and delete as necessary. Most spams that I have seen come from a new user account. The spammer appears to be using a script to create a new forum account to post the single message and move on. Subsequent spam messages are also posted from a single use forum account. One way around this is to require admin approval on all new signups. Another option may be to require captcha and or email validation before automatically approving the new forum account. YMMV as some captcha systems can be easily circumvented.
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