AtTheForum Support

admin · Site Admin Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

We run several custom written filters and tools to try to keep spammers from trashing your forum using their automated tools. Unfornately things are not perfect yet....if they were I would be rich selling the technology to the masses.

If you find spam in your forum please report the incident here so that we may provide help.

keepnitreal · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: North Country

Are You sure You want us to report those who spam
our boards?
Wonder how many real members are registered HERE
had You ever considered removing them.

Just a thought!

Logicquest · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Colorado U.S.A.

I think they get to our forums through the "member directory" on the attheforum homepage. Can we opt out of the directory listing?

admin · Site Admin Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

We are making more changes to help combat SPAM. These Damn bots keep getting smarter....

We just made a change that will not let members be listed in a forum member listing unless they have logged in at least once.

We are also removing the registration profile fields for website, iqr, interests, etc. These will need to be filled in once someone has confirmed their registration.

There are a couple more changes coming, very soon.

Logicquest · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Colorado U.S.A.

keepnitreal · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: North Country

Thank You and I hear Ya.
In an attempt to help...
A share if needed - if of no use - admin please delete
this list.
something perhaps for us all - found this tonight:

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I know many forum admins are now blocking all yahoo and gmail accounts as well - I have many members who use those domains so I’m not quite ready to block them yet.

This list is comma delineated so you can cut and paste into your ban settings. This list is generated from actual working forums and spam has been received from these domains or domain extensions.

The global extension bans are listed first (example: banning all “.ru” domains). The asterisk is your wild card command. For example: *@mywebsite.com would ban all emails from that entire domain, whereas “*@*.com” would ban all dot com domains. Since most legitimate US based users will use dot com and dot org addresses, we have banned virtually all other extensions, including the spam-ridden .tv, .info, .biz and similiar domain extensions. With over 100,000 registered users on my forums, I can count the number of legitimate “.ru” email member accounts on one hand.

There are some duplicates in this list, but PHPBB software automatically eliminates duplicates so shouldn’t be a problem. If you don’t want to be complete extensions, then eliminate the front of the list. Sadly, this list is only a PARTIAL list of complete spam domains. I’ve eliminated most .biz, .tv, .ro, etc. domains because this list includes a global ban. I have only included the worst offenders on this list.

This list is not a list of “spam domains”, but it is a list of domains that are used for spam to such a degree that we cannot keep up with it manually. For instance, “web.de” also has many legitimate users - but the largest use of that domain for forum registrations is by spammers, so that’s why it is on the list. You also may consider adding hotmail.com to the list if you are receiving too much spam from those accounts.

*NOTE - This list is comma-delineated for use with PHPBB. This is a SINGLE PARAGRAPH list which you’ll see once you cut and paste it. The appearance of spaces is from my blog text layout, it’s actually one list, no space gaps. You can use this list with any program you like; just format it for your required format. I will keep this list updated when I updated my own forums.

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admin · Site Admin Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

We have added a number of new global filters to the registration and profile pages to try to catch many of the common SPAM words and sites. I am actually monitoring daily to add in new sites and words. I am a little hessitant to completely block a country wide domain name, but if things don't improve I may need to resort to that....

We have held off on the auto delete of accounts after several voiced concerns. Again, we will have to see how things progress.

keepnitreal · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: North Country

Understood and Thank You for being on top of this issue!