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Originally Posted by *Dearly Depotted*
Pretty interesting that there is a way to combat the spamming! OMG! You really were able to get rid of the spam problem all together on another site! Plus you actually blocked entire countries! Very impressive! Hopefully our site could be spam free some day! Fingers crossed! |
This forum appears to be based on a VB web server. IPs are usually blocked at the firewall or at the IIS, but on shared Host servers the forum admin may not have access to those. .... However, blocking can also be done by the server itself by adding a pre-connection blocking unit ( IPAddressBlocker; or some such) to the server. .... The the Mods & Admins can simply add a spammer's IP to a list to block them; or by using 'wild card character *) block entire networks. IP blocking is much more effective than blocking usernames or user email address and prevents a blocked user from making/using a new user name. .... For more detail see
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles...ing-in-ASP-NET
This is to show that Spam can be stopped (greatly reduced) and how a well run forum can handle the problem. The forum owner/Admin doesn't have to do all the work if the forum server is set up properly and allows Mods access to the Block list.