I was wondering if anyone thinks it would be a good idea to set a delay from the point of registration to when someone can first post on this forum.
I think a delay of a couple hours or even a day would be beneficial in keeping out spammers. I am not sure if it will be a large enough nuisance to deter new members though.
But with the number of pill and casino ads posted lately ... Something should be done.
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It usually makes no difference.
Spammers are very patient people and usually hard to stop and restricting posting for a day as an example will usually drive people who are shy about posting to not post at all.
The offending casino post have been removed.
DrDoctor
Spammers are very patient people and usually hard to stop and restricting posting for a day as an example will usually drive people who are shy about posting to not post at all.
The offending casino post have been removed.
DrDoctor
QUOTE (DrDoctor @ Jul 25 2009, 02:11 AM) 
It usually makes no difference.
Spammers are very patient people and usually hard to stop and restricting posting for a day as an example will usually drive people who are shy about posting to not post at all.
The offending casino post have been removed.
DrDoctor
Spammers are very patient people and usually hard to stop and restricting posting for a day as an example will usually drive people who are shy about posting to not post at all.
The offending casino post have been removed.
DrDoctor
Yep! The Dr. has successfully removed the cancer.
I agree that spam cntrol is difficult, and sometimes as a moderator it can take long periods of their time to remove the offending material. So thank you, Dr.Doctor for your attention to this matter....God's Peace....To`na Wanagi
we do what we can to support our family here and keep them safe 
Peace and Love
DrDoctor
Peace and Love
DrDoctor
Yeah this is why I mentioned the part about chasing people away. Still the casino and the other kind of spam is frustrating since I like not to miss any important posts especially in the prayer section.
It is truly a battle of wits most days.
Our company mail is much the same,
This year we have processed 454512 emails. 423530 were spam leaving 30982 real emails. (93% were spam)
Our general manager imports from China so we regularly get hit by overnight companies wanting to sell us everything from marble to tacks.
A team of three people manage the spam each business day and I do it over the weekend myself.
Our company currently has 48 active email addresses, yet we received 327452 emails to non-existent addresses.
Another forum that I manage for a company is hacked at least 3 times a month. The code it was written in is bad and unsecure.
They join the forum, post one legitimate post to find out how the system works then hammer the database. It only takes about 10 minutes to fix once I am notified but there is no way to fix it. At least I did not provide the site. I was brought in later and do it as a favor to the secretary of the company as I used to work for him before I was married.
We have a team here that spans a couple of time zones so they shouldn't be on this board for very long. That is the best we can do, unless you want to go draconian and require moderator permission to post.
I generally dislike that approach as it limits the ability for people to get topics rolling and it also tends to drive people away.
In a forum of this nature, the new posters work up the courage to share. If they don't see the results immediately they tend not to return to see the advice provided. I know of one site that used this approach. They went from 3000 to 3 in two weeks.
thats about 2 cents I think.
Peace and love
DrDoctor
Our company mail is much the same,
This year we have processed 454512 emails. 423530 were spam leaving 30982 real emails. (93% were spam)
Our general manager imports from China so we regularly get hit by overnight companies wanting to sell us everything from marble to tacks.
A team of three people manage the spam each business day and I do it over the weekend myself.
Our company currently has 48 active email addresses, yet we received 327452 emails to non-existent addresses.
Another forum that I manage for a company is hacked at least 3 times a month. The code it was written in is bad and unsecure.
They join the forum, post one legitimate post to find out how the system works then hammer the database. It only takes about 10 minutes to fix once I am notified but there is no way to fix it. At least I did not provide the site. I was brought in later and do it as a favor to the secretary of the company as I used to work for him before I was married.
We have a team here that spans a couple of time zones so they shouldn't be on this board for very long. That is the best we can do, unless you want to go draconian and require moderator permission to post.
I generally dislike that approach as it limits the ability for people to get topics rolling and it also tends to drive people away.
In a forum of this nature, the new posters work up the courage to share. If they don't see the results immediately they tend not to return to see the advice provided. I know of one site that used this approach. They went from 3000 to 3 in two weeks.
thats about 2 cents I think.
Peace and love
DrDoctor
Find thier email address, and send them every advertisement we can find several million ministers sending advertisements to this fella, and he'll wisen up, or just ban the email address, I.P., or the user permanently
oftentimes the information provide here is not real. ie the person may say they are from the US but be from Germany for instance.
With mail spam, they are often sent by bots (little programs sitting on infected machines around the world). These could be ordinary people with no connection to the information inside the email.
This morning 7.26.09 our server received 26 emails from the "same" person. they each came from a different ip spread across 11 countries. It's highly unlikely that this person has access to time travel to send so many emails so close together.
There is similar technology for accessing forums, so the original IP man not necessarily be that of the user plus most isp's use proxy servers so they can often be registered instead of the end user.
we can ban/block/delete the user and that is the only reliable thing we can do, but it does not stop them from signing up again.
This forum has had very little of this type of activity since I signed up in May compared to others that I/have am involved in. (4 separate times from my poor memory)
They are just more noticeable because at any moment of time there are only a hand full of people using it.
I have read it was worse in the past, prior to this new version of the board. so we have moved towards a more spamless board, just not spam free.
DrDoctor.
With mail spam, they are often sent by bots (little programs sitting on infected machines around the world). These could be ordinary people with no connection to the information inside the email.
This morning 7.26.09 our server received 26 emails from the "same" person. they each came from a different ip spread across 11 countries. It's highly unlikely that this person has access to time travel to send so many emails so close together.
There is similar technology for accessing forums, so the original IP man not necessarily be that of the user plus most isp's use proxy servers so they can often be registered instead of the end user.
we can ban/block/delete the user and that is the only reliable thing we can do, but it does not stop them from signing up again.
This forum has had very little of this type of activity since I signed up in May compared to others that I/have am involved in. (4 separate times from my poor memory)
They are just more noticeable because at any moment of time there are only a hand full of people using it.
I have read it was worse in the past, prior to this new version of the board. so we have moved towards a more spamless board, just not spam free.
DrDoctor.
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