Why isn't it possible to simply unregister users who send spam like
this? If it's not a bot and is a registered user, shouldn't there be
some consequence to posting spam? Recognizing that the idiot could
re-register with another name and manually post more of this again, it
seems like "we" should be making it more difficult for him/her to
continually pollute the list.
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:49:26 -0500
From: "gamblor01" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Wine] Re: Full guide: How to Crack DRM Video, Rip a DVD and
burn a DVD
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Not 100% convinced that this is a bot. Yes, this EXACT same post was just posted on ubuntuforums.com last night. Identical wording, pictures, and all.
However, it's a registered user on the forum and unless they have figured out how to get around pictorial captcha boxes, it has to be a real person that is spending the time to register and then post this garbage. Unfortunately, that means there is no way around it. :/
Standard policy don't bother responding to them Michael Reich.
Mailing list and forms will get there fair share of spam from time to time.
Problem is captcha is not a problem for bots anymore people determined to spam pay humans to process the captcha and have bot do the rest. captcha only slows down the least advanced bots who don't have a farm of humans to process captcha's.
Giving them attention like this only make it worse. Request that topic disappears from forum directly in a pm or other message to the forum maintainer is the most effective.
Lot of the bots do check back how well there advertising lasts. On the forum I would have not even known about it because its already off the first page if no one had commented about it.
There will be fools out there who will go looking for it because it still here.
