| Grant Johnson |
27 Oct 2006 22:07 |
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Originally Posted by oldbmw
three things,
is it possible to auto ban posts containing a particular symbol ( currency symbols) I use this on my filtering for email spam.
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Not a good idea as we often need to use currency symbols - and they could always use some other symbol or just say "dollars" and we'd have to ban that - etc etc etc...
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Originally Posted by oldbmw
( also use the word 'meta' as it blocks most html documents which many spammers use to bypass the word filters)
Not of any use here. All non-approved html is already blocked.
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Originally Posted by oldbmw
pick up their email addresses and use it to subscribe to dodgy websites.. then they will be on the spammers lists :)
everyone send 'war and peace' in pdf format or some big file to their email addy, blocking or filling up their webspace buffers.
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This SOUNDS good but is actually a bad idea - and a waste of time.
MANY if not ALL of the spams you receive are not actually from who they say they are from! Spammers now SPOOF email addresses - in other words, use another email address as the "From" address - not their own. That way they are untraceable and ideas like the above won't work.
Worse, the spoofed addresses are just another innocent person on the spammers list, so you're signing up an innocent person - you could even be one of the people whose address is used as a spoof mail address. I know mine has been used in spoof addresses.
Best thing to do with spam is simply delete it - and let all newbies know the same. If one person in a million buys something from them it's all worthwhile. So don't buy!
hope that helps a little |
