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"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
-Dave Barry-
"We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards.
Strong beer is the milk of the old."
-Martin Luther-
Barry,
I just started this thread to help the moderators quickly remove those who can't play by the rules.
I guess I have adopted the job of so called "Garbage Collector".
I call it "fishing for bottom feeders".
(I'm a moderator on a couple other groups).
You're more than welcome to help!
As you can see from my posts above,
I copy the link location of the offender (offenders ID) and paste .... then copy the thread location(s) from browser window(s) on the next line(s).
Too bad you don't have a way to approve membership.
This would stop some .. but not all of the problems.
A good tool is having the option of approving a newbies post for a period of time to make sure they are proper.
We'll just keep fishing for now .. or till our arms get tired of pulling them in
Scott and other Mods, as far as banning goes, I think it's perfectly acceptable as long as the IP's originate outside of westernized countries, as that is where the majority of spam comes from...
However, the guy that I just deleted and banned, 'fat loss fitness info x' came from, 92.21.33.186, which is an IP from the UK, handed out by 'opal telecom' - a large ISP providing to both business and residential customers in the UK, and is probably a dynamically assigned IP, which will eventually make it to another user, so therefore should not be banned...
Additionally, it was probably just a jumping point for the real spammer, who is likely using a computer that was infected with a virus as a stepping stone. This is what makes these sorts of things so difficult.
A modicum of research should always be done to determine where the spam is coming from before banning IP's from a forum, or legitimate users may end up not being able to access the service.
When time permits, the IPs that are known spam are researched and banned. It is difficult to do this on a daily basis. It probably is impossible to get rid of all of them. Once a process is put in place to stop them they figure out some other angle to get through.
All we can do is continue to stay ahead of them and delete ASAP. Psychdad PMs a list of IPs to me from time to time and then they are banned. This works well. Most sites with lists of IPs that are spammers do not allow you to copy multiple addresses at a once. If these can be listed for me, it is easier to copy and paste.
Or, if anyone has a site which lists the latest nuisances and they can be bulk copied, let me know.
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