No spam control is being done here at this side of the forum?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/16/2018 07:33PM by J.G..

I think that Guenter was responsible for spam, but the last time he posted on the forum was 2 months ago...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2018 01:04PM by panzer.

Here's an answer from siria in a very brief conversation:
SUBJECT: Phorum IP address filtering

From: siria
To:KM2005
Date: 05/06/2018 04:32PM

Hi,
thanks for the suggestion, but am the wrong person for such technical stuff.
The problem is, currently there seems hardly anyone around who can handle it :-/ The one with full access and skills (but not time) is only Dorian, and people with "much" access are rodocop (where is he?), JohnHell (vanished since Dec.), jujuland (average 1 post per year or so), and a few others (even longer gone).
But in the past, when such technical stuff came up, the answer was usually always "not possible"sad smiley



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2018 01:51PM by KM2005.

Info I had sent to siria:

From doing brief searching of the Phorum software forum, seems Phorum software doesn't do spam control.

Searching the forum software listings on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUDforum (flood control & CAPTCHA, Blacklisting of users and IP blocking)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invision_Power_Board Invision Power Board/Invision Community [Used by forum.spamcop.net]
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/305795-captcha-for-new-posts-in-certain-areas Spam "service" in version 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBB ("MyBB 1.6.5, released on 25 November 2011, additional methods were added to help administrators locate spam users and manage them effectively as well as providing standard reCAPTCHA support". 3 April 2012, "It was also mentioned that instead of releasing an official anti-spam plugin as planned called Spam Ninja, the MyBB Team would be added many new anti-spam features directly to the MyBB core.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB
"phpBB3 has improved its anti-spam options available to forum administrators, including a new CAPTCHA system, suspensions, user logging and other various features.[67] The phpBB team has published recommendations on protecting the boards from spam.[68] Currently the best method is to use a Q&A (question-answer) challenge, which was introduced into phpBB 3.0.6.[69]". [Used by LastPass password manager forum, palemoon.org forum, numerous Linux-related forums, and forum.mywot.com)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Machines_Forum
"spam filter" by Akismet. [Used by forums.comodo.com, the software company]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBB.threads checking spammers "against StopForumSpam"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin
"...features in 3.7 include an inline spam management & prevention system..." [Used by avsForum.com and Volkswagen club forums].



Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2018 07:55PM by KM2005.

I really miss @guenter and @rodocop too, I hope they will come back soon! :cool:
I vote @siria to get control over spam and other forum issues as well.

Had a quick look through the Phorum docs and found this :

https://www.phorum.org/docs/html/admin/ch03s03s03s09.html

it might help if someone with admin rights could enable these options ? !

bump !

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mhf
re-bump

Bumping won't help, sorry ;-)
That's already known, I remember someone else (John?) had brought it up awhile ago too, but for some reason it wasn't usable for this forum.

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siria

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mhf
re-bump

Bumping won't help, sorry ;-)
That's already known, I remember someone else (John?) had brought it up awhile ago too, but for some reason it wasn't usable for this forum.

OK - sorry for the extra spam !

Again some spam is all around! :mad:

Not that it may help long, but what assigning a new path to the "Off topic"?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2018 06:26PM by KM2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_spam#Spam_prevention

Just for a bit cosmetical self-help, while no admins deleting spammers:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?9,146900

@siria
Just move all spam to hidden admin channel.