spam

[tim]

Is there a way to change the signup process to eliminate the spammers? It looks like about 80% of the members of the site are spam...

Cheers,

Tim

[JimHow]

Yeah I think we need to do something about that.

[PappaDoc]

Yesterday I was introducing a customer to BWE. When I opened the Forum the first thread he and I saw was the "Incest" spam.

[AlexR]

Hi guys,

Because of the time difference, I get rid of anything that comes in overnight.
So nothing stays up there very long.

All the best,
Alex

[greatbxfreak]

Tim,

It's not very polite to say that 80% of members here are spammers! Because they're not. Did you count yourself as a spammer or did you include me as well?? You should be ashamed of yourself!

Alex,

Would it be easier to put a spam filter on the forum here?

[JimHow]

Greatbxfreak, i think what Tim meant was that 80% of the "members" are spammers, which is indeed the case.
I'm trying to reach Phil to see if we can address the issue.

[tim]

Greatbxfreak,

I was saying that of the 350+ registered users, it looks as though well over 200 of them are fake names that were registered for the purpose of sending spam. Most of them have spam url's or spam-like user names.

Tim