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May 1, 2009 at 2:21 am #43963
In reply to: Future of E-mail… mynickname@mysocialnetwork.com
Anointed
ParticipantA number of years ago I offered email to my users and in the end there were thousands of people using my servers for email, including spam bots.
Here is the biggest problem that I faced.
As there was so much ‘spam’ coming from my domains, I was blacklisted on aol, and yahoo, and a few others. To this day, I still cannot use those domains to send email to aol etc…. Once blacklisted, it seems to be forever.
While I think the idea is cool, I cannot see a reason that I would ever offer email to my users other than my admins/moderators for internal communication.
just my 2cents
April 27, 2009 at 10:54 pm #43748In reply to: What are you doing for Spam
cdaniel
ParticipantI had a problem with spam without reCaptcha
reCaptcha kills spam bots and I have no more spam.
Good luck
April 27, 2009 at 10:14 pm #43747In reply to: What are you doing for Spam
ParticipantI had an idea of another way to combat the constant comment spam and registrations from bots, though I don\’t know if it would work.
As the bots don\’t read the page like humans do, they just search for and find the forums to fill in, brings up an interesting idea.
What about using \’hidden\’ fields that are not displayed on the screen itself.
The idea being that if data is input into the field it could not possibly be a human, so we then know to \’not activate\’ or error out the comment/registration etc…
The ‘auto spam bot programs’ that I have come across all look for specific fields etc. We could do something like name the hidden field ‘password’ etc, so the bot thinks it’s legit, but it’s not.
Does anyone know if the bots are \’smart enough\’ to figure this out and get around it?
April 27, 2009 at 2:39 pm #43700In reply to: Securing components from non logged in users
thebigk
ParticipantAhoy!
Do I need to make any changes to make Burt\’s mod work on RC2 ?
And…will this prevent the search engine bots from grabbing member profile information?
April 13, 2009 at 2:24 pm #42545Deep
Participant@Jeff Sayre – Will it be safe to have latest SVN version on production site? I am not sure about it so asking..
For now, I am going to export the online DB to my local machine and see if it makes a difference or not.. (if the tables are not automatically getting created that means, the issue is with the spam bots else the issue is with something else)
I will post updates in a while..
February 9, 2009 at 10:32 pm #37588In reply to: Forum Integration: HELPING HINTS
oldskoo1
ParticipantThanks for this guide, very helpful!
I was trying to get this working myself before i found this.
2 things that were a must for me…
Alpha version on bbpress was the only version that worked
Don’t touch the cookie integration, skip that bit and just do the DB integration.
Oh and there is a problem with duplicate content if you care about google spidering it if users find the default forum and link to it.
There just add a robots.txt file with
User-agent: *
Disallow: /bbpress/
You could probably put a header redirect on it too to stop people using it and only using the bp side.
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