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tex512 Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 22 September 2004 Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote tex512 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Forum Spamming Posted: 11 October 2005 at 8:01am
	Hi, Presumably because our website has a reasonable google pagerank, we keep getting forum posts which contain lots of links to various far east websites. Please can someone outline the best way to prevent this? e.g. is there an option to stop a post which has more than a set level of links in it? Many Thanks Tex

craigskel Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 07 October 2005 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote craigskel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2005 at 9:48am
	Possibly change the permissions of your forum so only registered users can post? Or alternatively suspend registration and add new members manually?

tex512 Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 22 September 2004 Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote tex512 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2005 at 10:41am
	Hi, Thanks for that. I was hoping there would be another way, as I don't want the regular forum users to have to do extra work because of this. It's probably easier for me to delete the messages when they appear as I currently do. Thanks Tex.

JJLatWebWiz Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 02 March 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 136	Post Options Post Reply Quote JJLatWebWiz Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2005 at 11:16am
	http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=16020#88345 I built a check that looks for the occurance of hyperlinks and sends such posts to a quarantine folder. My current version (not posted) also automatically adds the IP to the banned list. If you understand ASP reasonably well, this mod is simple. If you have any questions on that mod, please post them there, not here in the support forum.
	p.s. I'm not affiliated with Web Wiz Guide in any way. I'm just an average Web Wiz user repaying my debt for the use of their fine forum by trying to help other Web Wiz Guide users.

tex512 Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 22 September 2004 Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote tex512 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2005 at 12:34pm
	Hi, That's exactly what I was looking for. Many Thanks for your help. Tex

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