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Hi all -
Over the last few days my website has been overrun with spam users from gmail.com accounts. I have been banning their accounts and blocking their IP addresses as they have appeared but I had to boot out about 13 accounts this morning and it's a bit tedious.
What is the best way to deal with spam users? As I mentioned gmail.com seems to be the preferred email for these at the moment - I could block the entire domain and request that legitimate users from gmail.com contact site admin directly but that seems a bit drastic ... or does it:D ?!
Any ideas?
Thanks
Over the last few days my website has been overrun with spam users from gmail.com accounts. I have been banning their accounts and blocking their IP addresses as they have appeared but I had to boot out about 13 accounts this morning and it's a bit tedious.
What is the best way to deal with spam users? As I mentioned gmail.com seems to be the preferred email for these at the moment - I could block the entire domain and request that legitimate users from gmail.com contact site admin directly but that seems a bit drastic ... or does it:D ?!
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Same problem here!:@
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Well, I have a simliar problem on another site. The thing is, I do not like having to use infusions or addons or anything like that. So I enforce admin approval on all accounts. Which can be a bit tedious, but works as spam prevention.
I think that as long as you inform the users about what goes, you are ok.
I think that as long as you inform the users about what goes, you are ok.
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Dude, there are lots of Users who are getting attacked by the same Spammers having Gmail accounts with dots(.) in their Emails !
You should search in the Forums ! recently, There are many topics made for that !
One of them : http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/forum/vie...pid=152588
You should search in the Forums ! recently, There are many topics made for that !
One of them : http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/forum/vie...pid=152588
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Any chance of possibly trying to keep all these spam thread in the same thread as it looks like us users are creating more spam than the spam script. lol
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@Craig : [size=20]L:DL[/size]
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You have a problem ankur? What's up mate?
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Craig, calm down. Lots of users have this issue and it is not easy to just shove everything into a single thread.
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2 days later. lol
I moved on since then. :P
I moved on since then. :P
Edited by Craig on 03-03-2011 15:52,
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