[TYPO3-typo3org] how to avoid forum Spam

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Bernd,

right now we're just cleaning the spam manually whenever it's needed. It
increases from time to time but also goes back again after some time. It
seems like the spammers realize that TYPO3 users are clever enough to
not click on their links ;-)

Let's see what we can do if the problem persists for a longer time...

Greetings, Michael

Am 18.02.2015 um 08:19 schrieb bernd wilke:
> Propably everyone noticed the increase of spam in our TYPO3
> forum/newsgroups/mailinglists.
> 
> I just stumbled over xrumer[1] attempts to register in a notifying form
> in a site administrated by me.
> Now I found a new user sending unrelated comments in news:typo3.jobs.
> As this is a group with very low traffic it is very obvious.
> The next step will be the spamming as the user now is allowed to post urls.
> 
> Is there a way to eliminate those spam-users and can I/we help with it?
> 
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRumer
> 
> bernd