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Post by EXO on Sept 18, 2008 19:42:29 GMT 8
Member "Wowposter" has been banned from the forum due to spam postings.
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Post by batteryboy on Sept 19, 2008 13:59:43 GMT 8
Who is this guy anyway?
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Post by mapmaster on Sept 19, 2008 17:07:10 GMT 8
Wowposter was exactly that - a poster of wow. Someone who was a bit of a TROJAN HORSE - joined the Forum as a member a week ago and then smothered various threads with spam. Both EXO and mapmaster spent some effort removing it all. Forum membership dropped by one, but the postings are now clear and relevant - as it should be. mapmaster
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Post by victor on Sept 20, 2008 11:23:06 GMT 8
Wowposter may not be a real person but an automated spambot. I deal with spam and bogus members everyday at the pinoyhistory forum. Ironically it is much easier to remove the garbage postings by a registered spambot because there is a tool in the Admin section where you can delete all postings of a particular member in one fell swoop.
For the rest of spam postings, I routinely ban the posted by IP Address rather than username. It helps until the originating program changes IP Addresses. Then the process is repeated. By the way most of these IP Addresses are from China.
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