Drowning under a sea of SPAM!

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Drowning under a sea of SPAM!

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Claus,

the board is at risk of losing any value if the ever increasing amount of SPAM is allowed to continue.

I know that we don't get a lot of messages at the best of times, but the amount of SPAM seems to be disproportionately high - and getting worse.

Is there anythingt that can be done to restrict the scope for new users to post this s**t in the forums?
-Perhaps requiring the user to be validated before they can post?

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Dave
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Although it requires more work for an administrator or moderator, one way to reduce spam, is for new members to be required to enter a reason why they want to join and to give a short history of their own retro computing hobby.

If what they say sounds like it has been written by a human with an interest in retro computing, their registration can be validated.

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Claus,

if you need any help with moderating the forum to validate new users etc. I'm happy to help out.

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Hi Guys.

Yes I had a lot of spammers, I cleaned most out. I am going to put a option where people have to be approved by admin, it have to stop :)

Thanks
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Hi Claus,

yes, that's the way to do it!

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Crazyboss wrote:Hi Guys.

Yes I had a lot of spammers, I cleaned most out. I am going to put a option where people have to be approved by admin, it have to stop :)

Thanks
Great!
Thanks, much better!
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Mark
:!: Standby alert :!:
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb :!:
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :D

Not as many MTXs as Dave! :lol:
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