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.