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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
Sounds similar to spamhaus or what not. Intresting.
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That's what I was thinking, but I couldn't remember the name. It sounds thorough, but I wonder: if this guy is that into this he could probably save a lot of time by using one of those services. EDIT: Chances are he probably knows about them, but for some reason likes his methods or results better though.
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Originally Posted by satchel
Sounds good to me, there are constantly a few 'bots or something, lurking on my site. You said something about posting this. Is it something that others can use, who aren't on your service, FM?
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Keep in mind not all bots are bad. Google bots, etc help your site get noticed and indexed.
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Originally Posted by Stu
For sites that have vbulletin an easy way to eliminate spam bots is to add a dummy question to the registration. We have something like What is 11+7? and if they enter anything but 18 it doesn't allow them to register. This is usually enough to confuse the bots enough to move on.
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Yeah, we did that and it worked pretty well. I read that it's not just bots that spam, that there are humans in 3rd world countries employed to spam as well. Assuming they could do basic math I made the questions about baseball. Now, mind you, they were pretty easy questions any fan should know, but I don't think we got any spam using that.