Sorry, this is a bit OT, but we're using CF for the site, so thought I'd see what other CF folks are doing about it.
We've got a very busy legacy home-grown forum that since late August 2009 or so has been getting hit heavily by the Link-Building industry. Posting requires membership, which requires a captcha to be entered, and a confirmation email link to be clicked. Everyday, I search and invalidate hundreds of link-building memberships (the ones I can find). Interestingly, none of the links ever get posted -- we're using akismet, which does a pretty good job of stopping these. But, time is money, and hunting these suckers down (not to mention the ones I don't find out of oh, 700+ new memberships a day), plus just their presence in our database (more records == more processing time) is not a good thing. What are folks doing about this kind of abuse? And, can someone educate me on why the link-builders keep creating accounts when it's obvious their posts aren't getting published? I can tell from the data I'm seeing that it's the same people/scripts day after day. I'm at a loss. -KJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330649 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
