Re: Spam posts on the guest book

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Re: Spam posts on the guest book

Postby Brinkly » Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:56 pm

anon wrote:Easy peasy.

The Guest Book does not require a user account, anyone can post here. This posting is an example.

Spammers employ people in cheap labour countries to spam forums, always assuming they've not cracked the "type in a few letters" codes with software.


( Really Nigel Cliffe, a legitimate user ).


Has this been stopped yet!? :?

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Re: Spam posts on the guest book

Postby grovenor-2685 » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:34 pm

None of the moderators live on line, we can't delete them till they are seen. ;)
Best to 'Report' it which might possibly get our attention a bit quicker.
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Re: Spam posts on the guest book

Postby Flymo748 » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:46 pm

Brinkly wrote:
anon wrote:Easy peasy.

The Guest Book does not require a user account, anyone can post here. This posting is an example.

Spammers employ people in cheap labour countries to spam forums, always assuming they've not cracked the "type in a few letters" codes with software.


( Really Nigel Cliffe, a legitimate user ).


Has this been stopped yet!? :?


Hi Nick,

I'm afraid that it's virtually impossible to stop, as Nigel pointed out earlier. Those of us that respond to messages through the "Contact Form" on the website also get a fair number of these.

The answer, as always, is the [Delete] key.

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Re: Spam posts on the guest book

Postby Brinkly » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:50 pm

Cheers gents.

I will do in the future!

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