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lorna · Member Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 5

Hi there,

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I'm finding many new users being created that don't post and have inappropriate websites - porn, gambling, cosmetic enhancements etc., etc.

The User Admin tool is very labour intensive to delete them one, by one - is there a facility to bulk delete?

thanks in advance for your help.

gg'ssimon · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

Hello. No, there is not. An anti-spam tool is planned to be added to ForumUp forums some time this year, but for now, we just have to delete users one by one. You can ban certain email extentions so no one can register with that email extention. You use the "wildcard" star in front of it. For example, I have banned, *@cashette.com, as we were getting a lot of spam registrations from various email addresses from cashette.com.

Be careful with banning email extentions, though. You would not ban Hotmail or Yahoo, for example, as many "innocent" people use those email accounts.

Please give the direct url to your forum, not the url to your website.

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lorna · Member Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 5

O.K. thanks - that's what I thought but was clinging to the hope I'd missed a nifty tool somewhere!

Apologies for the incorrect link Embarassed

- I've now updated by signature accordingly.

cheers

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lemari · Member Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

I saw this: "New Visual Code for Registration helps reduce Spambots." I've been searching for the topic to get the code, but cannot find it. I've seen it installed on many other forums as well. Where can I download the code so that it requires the person to type in the letters and reduce spambots from signing up. Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Smile

lemari · Member Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

sorry i thought i was posting a new topic. feel free to delete my posts from this other person's topic.

gg'ssimon

lemari wrote:

I saw this: "New Visual Code for Registration helps reduce Spambots." I've been searching for the topic to get the code, but cannot find it. I've seen it installed on many other forums as well. Where can I download the code so that it requires the person to type in the letters and reduce spambots from signing up. Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Smile

Post the URL to your forum in all posts you make. If you put it in your signature, it will always be there.

It is already on all the forums. It is seen when people go to the page to register. It is that visual code in a box where people have to type in the letters and numbers that are in the box. Log out of here, and then click on the "register" link. Then you will see it. It is on ALL ForumUp forums and has always been. The new code is just more complex to help some spambots from being able to read it.

But, some spambots still can "read" it and register. There will never be a way to stop all spambots, since the evil people who make spambot programs are very smart and can design things to get around things people have designed trying to stop them.

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