There are services that can be purchased that do this especially targeting forum/blog posts and comments and the like. I don't know if there are free ones or if those places offer free services on top of their for-profit ones. But if a person really is doing the work by hand, then there is not really any way to automatically catch them, sadly. :(
--Greg On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenk...@suneidesis.com> wrote: > Is there something like SpamAssassin's bayesian filter feature that could be > utilised in the forum to idenify spam posts? If not SA then maybe one of the > equivalent tools could be substituted. > > Regards, Trevor. > > <>< Re: deemed! > > Sent from my iPad > > On 26 Sep 2011, at 18:56, Manfred Bergmann <manfred.bergm...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> There is a lot of spam in the forum as well. >> I have to constantly remove spam posts and delete user accounts, almost >> every day. >> It got a little better at first when users were forced to register with >> unequal fore- and surname. >> I'm not exactly sure how to prevent users from registering as it seems they >> are real humans. >> The email addresses could be validated as below but mostly they seem valid >> and I'm not sure this would help very much. >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> Manfred >> >> >> Am 26.09.2011 um 16:45 schrieb DM Smith: >> >>> Lately we've had a bunch of bogus accounts created. In response, I have >>> added the following: >>> 1) Every account requires email verification before the user is allowed to >>> edit a page. >>> 2) The supplied email address checked: >>> a) it is compared to known abusive patterns >>> b) checked that it is valid email according to RFC 3696 >>> c) the domain is checked that it has a DNS entry. >>> >>> Also, I have deleted accounts that I have deemed as bogus. And I have >>> blocked accounts whose names I don't think is appropriate. At times I block >>> and then delete, giving me a record of why the account was deleted. >>> >>> I'm also deleting any accounts older than a month that are not do not have >>> a validated email. I don't know if the hotmail.com, live.com, msn.com, ... >>> problem has been resolved, so I am leaving those for now. >>> >>> I'm planning to delete never used accounts that are at least a few months >>> old. I'll probably do this several times a year. >>> >>> Please let me know if this poses/causes any problems. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> In Him, >>> DM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
