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Edited by admin - 10-Feb-05 at 14:36

For some reason, I do not have the same moderator rights for the "Film Forum" as for the othet three ones. Please remove this brutal spam who can.

SOS Ivan

        Hi Harry,
    I have already deleted some spams in the other forums. Their contents was similar, but the sender and IP address were different- a typical product of a spamming virus-robot. This feature makes IP blocking ineffective. The spams have not been so frequent to make the conference moderated up to now. I check your messageboard almost daily, so I can remove unwanted posts quite fast.
    The last spam in this section was a bit different. Thank you for setting my rights.

    Have you any better news according to your employment ?

VBR from Ivan OK1SIP

Harry

I am a forum mod (global rights) on another site - not as popular as yours.  On there I was removing maybe 5 or 6 posts a day from automated spam bots, mostly from Eastern Europe - but not all  Cure is, and I assume your forum software here is pretty similar - firstly get an updated catchum.  Some of the older ones have been hacked, but the new one that the admin installed killed it stone dead. 

Secondly, in the software we use (PHPbb), we can set it so that all new members' posts are read first by a mod before they are publicly posted.

I won't post a link since the forum belongs to a commercial business, but please feel free to email me if you'd like to look :)

As a matter of interest - working back to the source of a given IP address isn't always so easy - Proxy servers often get in the way etc and to be honest, any half decent wannabe chatroom hacker can EASILY hide his/her IP.  I know, I've also been a chat room moderator on one of the UK's largest chat sites.  Hacking the spammers isn't as easy as some may imagine since most have a huge amount of resources dedicated to stopping their victims hacking them back.  Best way is get a decent katchum, keep it up to date, and vet new user's posts til you trust them

Finally, assuming Private Messages on here have been disabled, would you consider allowing them?  Sometimes I feel as if I want to ask a question of a member, but don't want to look like a prize pilchard by asking in public.

Lloyd.