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sparge · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 371

Thios forum has always been astonishingly efficient at spam screening. I wonder what has changed in the last couple of days? Yesterday, when I checked for new messages, I found a reply in my "Broken LOC" thread that was obviously spam (the title was a bit of a giveaway). Today, I received notice of a quarantined email with the following subject line and sender:

Subject: [Silverfrost Forums] free funny ringtones
From: "Silverfrost Forums" <roza.smith@mail.com>

It's not a big deal but I thought you would like to know that your previously impeccable standards seem to have been compromised somehow.

silverfrost · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: Minor spam outbreak on forum

You do not need an account to post in the forums and as you say the spam is very little -- it is like that, we delete very little. If it continues we may have to go 'account' only -- which would be sad.

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sparge · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 371

I see there has been a recent admin announcement as follows:

"Unfortunately these forums are being targeted by spam posters. We have therefore had to take away the anonymous posting feature. Anyone who posts to a thread will now need to be registered and logged-in."

I have been the subject of another facet of this recent regrettable trend in the last couple of weeks. Every few days I get an email of the form "An answer has been posted to your message on the page ...". At first I assumed that each one of these really did correspond to another item of spam in one of my threads. However, this mornings offering was dated 23 Sept, 2 days after the most recent contribution to the forum. So, curious, I clicked on the URL (having checked that it really did resolve to "forumspace", and sure enough it did not take me to a valid thread, but to a Silverfrost forums page saying "there are no messages to display". The URL in question was:

http://forums.silverfrost.com/forums/forum.asp?forumid=3&msg=2298#xx2298xx

Is anyone else getting this? Any suggestions as to how it is being implemented, or anything that can be done about it?

Andy