"I hate Spammers!" Topic

Our forum at link keeps on getting hit my spammers! I seem to spend ages every day trying to delete all the new members with dodgy viagra and phetomone website links. Its such a waste of their time and more importantly mine!

Does anyone else have this problem and, other than all the usual secruity measures the are inbuilt into my phpBB2 fourm package, I'm not sure what to do?…

(maybe advertising direct links to our forum on here doesn't help…)

I heard somewhere how you could bill spammers a cost for dealing with their unsolicited mail, so long as you put a message to that effect on your site. Sounds too good to be true, though, as you would first have to find them, then squeeze the money out of them.

I sometimes wonder what spammers think of the spam they get from other spammers. Do they hate it as well? Like a burglar hates being burgled.

regards …

Roly (replying with totally useless info to your problem)

Billing them usually is not an option, since they hardly ever use their own eMail addresses, but phantom images of others peoples eMail. I have an eMail-address that was used to advertise for a tournament once. Once in a while I still get a message delivered to my account that some viagra eMail of mine was undeliverable (gladly that has not happened in over a year now). It was also funny when I got spam-mal from myself! :-(

Anyway…I would guess that there is some option to eradicate these things in a forum environment. I know some forums where the owner hardly does anything (will not name and shame them) and that do not get spam. So I hope someone with more knowledge them me will be able to help you Warm Acre!

Cheers,

Burkhard
dhc-wargames.de

I have the sape problem with Spambots registering in my forum. Your options to combat them are listed here: link and you will probably have to ad a Mod or two to your forum.

God, billing them for the time they cost you… that does sound too good to be true, but it sure sounds good…

I prefer clubbing them,
those few extra pennies won't certainly make me feel any better…

Does anyone else have this problem…

Thankfully, no! (I guess the spambots aren't configured to hit a non-standard forum…)

I had a very basic forum on my site. I got rid of it recently because it was getting a lot of spam on and I don't have the time to check and get rid of it. Some of the spam was nastier than average – for instance advertising porn sites dealing with sexual violence.