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Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Hal, Yes, that is the first spam I have seen for 4 days now. And I have absolutely no idea what the vBulletin guys have done in v3.7 to "block" automated spamming. But spamming definitely "stopped" one minute after the update to v3.7. Friedrich
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Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Friedrich, God, I hate to be the one to have to tell you, but . . . I was really hoping you had found the magic bullet this time. Looks like what's needed is nothing less than a stake through the heart of these jerks! Hal Heindel www.printfire.com
Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Hal, Still no spam. Hmm........... Friedrich
Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Hal, I played with SpamBooster yesterday (does not work with v3.7) and posted three test spam messages. Spamming per-se still works. But "something" seems to "block" typical spamming systems at the moment. Friedrich
Re: Keeping out Spammers Thank you, Friedrich! Actually, other than the formatting, I had very little to do with it. I simply copied every post that's on our forum. One of the benefits of having a General Chat section seems to be that you're getting informal testimonials, the "word-of-mouth" kind of stuff you couldn't pay for. In our case, most of the chat turns out to be about the product. What may invite posts is that it doesn't have to be. Kind of what we're doing here. Enjoy your Sunday (what's left of it). Hal
Re: Keeping out Spammers If you're interested, take a look at the results at http://www.printfire.com/MFArchiv.pdf Trying to save 10,000 posts that way? Not in my lifetime! You'd have to be very selective in what you would want to archive. I agree. I downloaded your .PDF and your "General Chat" section is very well done! I think we'll do something similar... Friedrich
Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Friedrich, Yes, v-e-r-r-y interesting! I've watched your forum for the same reason and haven't seen any spam either. Let's keep our fingers crossed. That would certainly be great news. Hal
Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Hal, It's interesting to note that we did not receive a single spam message during the 36 hours. We switched to vBulletin 3.7 exactly 36 hours ago. Hmm.... Friedrich
Re: Keeping out Spammers Originally Posted by linder We are still brainstorming the Forum to PDF idea (more than 10,000 threads to convert). There should be a way to read the information out of the SQL database and then write it to PDF. Hi Friedrich, Absolutely. Either out of the database or from the text dump generated by MySQL when you perform a backup. I bought PageSnip and also use SnagIt from TechSmith. Neither of the two utilities are well suited for what I had to accomplish. Unlikely as it seems, the lowly Notepad served my purpose best, mainly because it strips out everything and saves only the raw text. You can Ctrl-C whatever you see on the monitor, do a Ctrl-V dump into Notepad, and end up with plain text. All the formatting is lost as well, of course, so that's where the work comes in. If you're interested, take a look at the results at http://www.printfire.com/MFArchiv.pdf Trying to save 10,000 posts that way? Not in my lifetime! You'd have to be very selective in what you would want to archive. All the best, Hal Heindel http://www.printfire.com
Re: Keeping out Spammers Hi Hal, I have to agree. The new "Spam Management" in vBulletin 3.7 is a bad joke. Does not make any sense at all Friedrich
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