Re: [Flightgear-devel] spam ridden official FlightGear forum

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

On 1/19/07, JD Fenech wrote:
>
> Perhaps it's a minor pain, but why not require the captcha for all posts
> until a user can be considered trusted by some semi-automatic method?
> Something like if that user has spam complaints against him, his captcha
> time is lengthened. Also, requiring all posted members register is a
> good deterrent. Combine the two, and you have a generally good defensive
> system.
>
> Is there any way to do adaptive spam control to flag potential spammers
> and spam messages? This works very nicely in Firefox. I've only had one
> spam message get through since changing my email to google, and that one
> slipped google before it got to me.
>
> My two cents, even though 2=9D=A2 doesn't count for anything these days.



We are working within the context of the capabilities of phpbb here so ther=
e
are limits to what we can do.  That said ... show me a useful phpbb mod to
help control spam and I'll consider installing it.

Curt.
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Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
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