A new rule for new members.

[Chris Perkins]

After all the dodgy links to porn, medications and various other spam commodities by new members, I have now set up the forum to email me each time a new member joins.

I then have to manually approve the account before they can start posting. Any accounts originating in Russia, China, or the usual spam server countries will not be approved by default unless the user can demonstate over email a genuine interest in coins!

It's such a shame people abuse the freedoms of this forum.

[Geordie582]

Thanks for that Chris! It can't be easy keeping the morons out!

[Chris Perkins]

I've blocked another 2 people from registering today already....Someone with a .ru (Russian) email address and someone who's email address started 'cheat-casino' (we get a lot of Casino spam too, but I delete it very quickly)!

[Geordie582]

A fulltime job?

[Chris Perkins]

No, not really but I do have to keep my wits about me, and an eye on it a few times a day at least.

[krasnaya_vityaz]

Lately my website has been assaulted by Hotel Link things in my guestbook. So much so that I may have to ditch the guestbook on my site and make it no contact at all. I took my email off and then used a form, but that bombed so no way to email me, and now the guestbook may go.

[Chris Perkins]

It's a right pain isn't it!

I think I might have to switch over to only allowing registered users to post but only when they've been manually approved...Which is a shame because that will discourage a lot of people.

[krasnaya_vityaz]

My guestbook was taken down earlier this morning. I am tired of deleting adverts. First the email link, then the contact page, and now the guestbook.

[Chris Perkins]

It ruins it for the millions of normal non spamming people doesn't it!

I seriously think that it's a problem governments need to address. All the spam traffic uses up so much world bandwidth, and it's always the same nation culprits (mainly Russia in my case).

[Geordie582]

I don't think anyone has come up with a foolproof way to stop this traffic without disrupting normal commerce. Still, there's always hope!

[Chris Perkins]

Taking Russia and a few other selected nations completely offline would probably reduce it by about 80%

[Chris Perkins]

I tell you what, since I've switched to manual member approval I've been getting 3-5 attempts everyday from people with .ru email addresses and/or registering names like cheap-vigra and win-casino!

When someone registers a new account now, there is a message saying that accounts registered from certain countries will not be approved until the registrant emails to show a genuine interest etc etc. I've emailed a couple of suspect accounts but they didn't reply and therefore got zapped.

The results are good though, since being picky about who is allowed in, there has been less spam.

[krasnaya_vityaz]

I tell you what, since I've switched to manual member approval I've been getting 3-5 attempts everyday from people with .ru email addresses and/or registering names like cheap-vigra and win-casino!

When someone registers a new account now, there is a message saying that accounts registered from certain countries will not be approved until the registrant emails to show a genuine interest etc etc. I've emailed a couple of suspect accounts but they didn't reply and therefore got zapped.

The results are good though, since being picky about who is allowed in, there has been less spam.

Gees to think, I think my email address for here is a .ru

[Geordie582]

But you're notorious!