Drowning under a sea of SPAM!

[Dave]

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?

regards
Dave

[1024MAK]

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.

Mark

[Dave]

Claus,

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

regard
Dave

[Crazyboss]

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

[Dave]

Hi Claus,

yes, that's the way to do it!

regards
Dave

[1024MAK]

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!

Mark