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RE: E-consultancy forum spammers - what should we do?

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Subject:  RE: E-consultancy forum spammers - what should we do?
Author:   Colin Cooper:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   09:38:50 20 April 2006
 
Ashley,

Take it as a compliment that e-Consultancy is seen to have such an authoratitive voice that it is seen as an ideal place to spam :-)

Try and avoid restricting real posts in any way though. The value of this forum is the ability to exchange views or advice and the more that 'casuals' use the forum the greater the chance that they will see the value of becoming a paid for member and hunt down their credit card. A delay in posting will just irritate your real users with the nagging doubt that their post has disappeared into unconnected bytes somewhere. It won't stop the spammers and you've still got to delete their contributions so no saving there. Those browsing the forum in real time will just filter out the garbage mentally.

Your suggestion of delaying the digest till 11.00 sounds like a great solution with the beauty of being the simplest. And if the spammers go away then you can move it forward again.

Colin Cooper colin@issel.co.uk
ISSEL - Pilot Software
Aligning Execution with Strategy
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