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What is with the freakin' spam?
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:47 am
by Wally Balljacker
Seriously, I don't get it. You don't see this kinda spam anywhere else. Why do all these spammers target you guys, of all people, and here, of all places. We're just a small community of Linux geeks. I don't know, maybe Pat pissed off one too many Apple wieners.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:51 am
by Patrick
Have seen some other forums? They get spam as well.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:37 am
by jsusanka
Patrick wrote:Have seen some other forums? They get spam as well.
agreed I have seen forums that get a lot more - you guys do a great job of stopping it.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:57 am
by Wally Balljacker
jsusanka wrote:Patrick wrote:Have seen some other forums? They get spam as well.
agreed I have seen forums that get a lot more - you guys do a great job of stopping it.
Yeah, they do, but it still seems like there are more people attacking this place than anywhere else. I've seen atleast 50 different users post spam on this board. This thread wasn't intended to be a complaint, but more or less just a genuine question.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:16 pm
by snarkout
It's prolly just bots. I think maybe 3 people actually read my blog, and I get a metric assload of spam on it every day.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:51 pm
by dann
Snarkout wrote:It's prolly just bots. I think maybe 3 people actually read my blog, and I get a metric assload of spam on it every day.
Uh, Allan said he stopped reading so that makes only 2
Anyway, it is a pain, the Spam, and Pat moreso than me has been doing a phenomenal job keeping the board cleaned up. The only other way around this is to enforce a policy that all new members have to be authorized by an admin before their membership is approved. This limits how soon one can post after signing up. Something we do not want to do.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:54 pm
by snarkout
DAMN YOU ALLAN!!!!!!!