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2011-10-01 , 16:26
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I'm on it. If someone reports them,I'll take care of them.
I wanted to report some of these and got some forum response:
"[...]
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
[...]"

What is going on here?
 
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So much spam today. grr.

I'm trying out a new plugin that does an extra check against Akismet: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248470

Also, if a post has more than 10 links, they need to be moderated.

Originally Posted by ME2g View Post
I wanted to report some of these and got some forum response:
"[...]
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
[...]"

What is going on here?
I might have deleted the post that you were reporting already.
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2011-10-01 , 17:04
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#73
Originally Posted by Reggie View Post
So much spam today. grr.
But you guys do a good job!
Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Reggie View Post
I'm trying out a new plugin that does an extra check against Akismet: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248470

Also, if a post has more than 10 links, they need to be moderated.
That looks good and everybody would understand if the forum rules say "Not more than <number> links excluding quotes".

How can we strike back?
Put the email adresses that they use onto blacklists?
 

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2011-10-01 , 17:09
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Originally Posted by ME2g View Post
How can we strike back?
Put the email adresses that they use onto blacklists?
Here's the list so far today:
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2011-10-01 , 17:15
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Originally Posted by Reggie View Post
Also, if a post has more than 10 links, they need to be moderated.
Could this addon be useful too?

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=96018

It prevents users with less than 15 messages from posting URLs or images within their messages.
 

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2011-10-01 , 17:17
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Originally Posted by ME2g View Post
May I point out the case that some providers do give dynamic IP adresses and if you ban these it may happen that a legal user and non spammer has a problem if he gets that IP.
Yes, it does happen. The new plug-in checks only for IP addresses of spammers reported on the last 10 days (can be increased). This hopes to solve that problem with regards to members using dynamic IPs.

Thanks.
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2011-10-01 , 17:18
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Originally Posted by kevloral View Post
Could this addon be useful too?

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=96018

It prevents users with less than 15 messages from posting URLs or images within their messages.
Thanks but it looks like that's a plugin for an old vB version. Try to check for plug-ins for vb3.8.
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2011-10-01 , 17:21
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Looks like the new plug-in is holding up nicely, thanks to the additional check from Akismet:
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Question: are those spambots intelligent enough to generate and verify real email addresses? Because if not the solution seems obvious.
 
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Question: are those spambots intelligent enough to generate and verify real email addresses? Because if not the solution seems obvious.
Yes. They create email addresses from free services and they have automated the process of clicking the link on the verification email that they get.
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