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   hammer1 | Jan 17, 2012 09:33am | #1

   Gina, there was a similar message over at Breaktime, too. When I see spam, I use the 'inappropriate'  marker but don't know if that ever gets to anyone. I think some others do the same.

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   RalphBarker | Jan 17, 2012 12:14pm | #2

   Flagging spam posts

   I've also been flagging actual posts as "Inappropriate", but with mixed results in that where ever those flags reside doesn't seem to be monitored on a regular basis. That, of course, doesn't deal with private-message spam.

   On another forum where I'm one of the admins, we use a module available for the vBulletin forum software that checks new registrants against an online database of known spammers at stopforumspam.com. This has been quite effective for us, since the database includes the e-mail address being used in the registration, the user name, and IP address. Perhaps a similar module is available for the open-source software being used here?

   Note that this approach stops most spammers at the registration stage, so we have avoided implementing the text-verification process that is such a pain here.

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   swenson | Jan 20, 2012 09:49am | #3

   New spam

   Heights Woodworking has a new one on New to Woodworking.  Sure looks like spam to me.

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   GEide | Jan 23, 2012 08:23am | #4

   Hi Swenson,

   Thanks for the heads up. Will keep an eye out.

   In other news, I've tested a fix to the private message system. It's ready to be rolled out. Just waiting for that to happen. Will post back when it's implemented.

   Gina

   FineWoodworking.com