One way to stop spam here

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One way to stop spam here

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:27 pm

There is a membership script called Amember that works with phpbb – if you install it new users will have to use the sign-up form on Amember that is totally different than the phpbb sign-up form (also the sign-in form is totally different).

It also prevents password sharing so a spammer in one country cant give his sign-in info to a spammer in another country, you can also prevent the same account from being signed-in mutable times at the same time

So far this has stopped ALL of the spam on the forums I run and administer (excluding spammers with pulses)

http://www.amember.com/

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Re: One way to stop spam here

Postby Kurt » Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:07 pm

Thanks for the tip.

The manual spammers from India and the Phillipines are impossible to stop but they tend not to "swarm" like the automated Russians and Chinese do.
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Re: One way to stop spam here

Postby Caliban » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:14 am

Kurt wrote:Thanks for the tip.

The manual spammers from India and the Phillipines are impossible to stop .



Oh I don't know. There are a few people on here who could stop themfor you if you have the names and addresses.
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