I'm really pissed at these spammers. Sometimes they manage to post more than 5 spams a day on cb. The mollom system manages to catch another 50. Now, I have their emails and website addresses advertised. Is there a way to retaliate these guys? What legal means there are?
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teehee... not sure, but I like the way you think!
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I know when it comes to email spam, you can get some domain names black-listed, which means popular email sites like yahoo, google, hotmail, etc. won't accept any email from the offending spammers. But that's all I know... not sure how you can retaliate against forum spammers.
If you find anything out, let me know!
Try these tips from a friend of mine, he's stopping about 95% of his comment spam: http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/2008/12/26/defeating-comment-spam
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It IS an "arms race" unfortunately.
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let's fight against them together :)
give some more rights (moderator or something like that) to some of the users here and they will help you cleaning the spammers out from the site.
just an idea.
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I think this is a good idea. I will add a "Mark as spam" button. And if a certain number of people click it — It will get deleted. What do you think?
that would be great I think but that "certain number of click" could be misused right? how would you fix that thing? or do you mean certain number of chosen people click it? :)
I just know how the things in other forums are working. you can't find too many of them maintained by only one person. and it is often a case that the admins are from different parts of the world because of timezones. while you are sleeping in bahrein someone in, let's say chicago can clean spammers and so on. you know what I mean.
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Too bad you can't flood their emails with 20MB messages, say in banks of 40, which, hinging upon their internet service, could really jam the works up at their end.
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First off, they use bogus email addresses, so they aren't even real ones, and the ones that are real, they never check. They just set the email address to auto-delete the email as soon as it arrives, so you aren't going to clog up their email.
Second, most of them are spoofing email addresses. The email they send it bounced off of dozens of unsuspecting people's email server. So the address you see isn't the actual address that sent the file.
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Do they get a confirmation email when they sign up so that we know for sure these are real email addresses?
Yes, they have to give a real email address. But, it's easy to create a fake one with any webmail system.
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Captchas keep away the automated spam bots for the most part. But many of these spammers are actual people, and they're clever in the way the do it. They use valid looking comments in the comment subject line, or even in the comments themselves, then post a bunch of links after.
You could also set up the comments as a "No Follow" link system. That way at least they aren't getting any google rankings from you.
Ultimately though, the best option is probably to give a few trusted folks admin privs to delete comments. The comment traffic isn't too terribly busy here, not enough that a few people couldn't handle the load.
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