Just a quick FYI for anyone who is interested.

I have been working hard to try to catch spammers BEFORE they can spam our site. As I have previously mentioned, I keep a database (Access of course) that will let me quickly lookup to see if someone has spammed the site before, or has been banned before.

If I see some suspicious entry or person registering, I will check to see if their information is in my database. If not, I still check on Google to see if they have spammed other sites and, if they have, I ban them immediately.

And, I report weekly to SJ McAbney (our forum Admin) to get him to ban the IP's of those who have been spamming. My current threshhold is if they have been banned 3 times or more I report the IP to SJ and have him ban it.

For those who have been around a while, you should have noticed a decrease in the spam activity on the site.

Right now, in the database I have 1248 banned users listed. I just was working through our member list and managed to find several usernames that needed to be banned due to either being banned previously for spamming here or for spamming activity on other sites.

Not all of the decrease in spam is due to my efforts though. A while back there had been some updates to the forum which helped as well.

So, anyway, I just wanted to let you know (and any spammers who read this) that I am on their trail and continue to work at beating them.

:D

I for one Bob, think you have been doing an heroic job of nailing the spammers. I know we all benefit form your efforts. It is almost as if we are imune to spam, but I know better. Thanks from all of us!

Here here.

Outstanding work Bob.

Your ongoing work to maintain the forum is greatly appreciated.

Another vote of thanks from here

L

Thanks guys!

I hereby knight you 'Sir SpammerNot' :)

Way beyond the call of duty. Well done, sincerely.

Way beyond the call of duty. Well done, sincerely.

---Thanks SJ---

keep up the good work
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Crikey even Col and Rich would vote for him.:D

I'd like to offer my apologies for spamming the SQL Server forum :p :D

But seriously...good work :), I hate spammers... it's all so pointless and I dont know of anyone who ever bought anything because they were spammed.

Cheers

hell

I'd like to offer my apologies for spamming the SQL Server forum :p :D
Yeah, I've been meaning to ban you for that ... :D

But seriously...good work :)
Thanks

Another sincere appreciation here Mr. President. :) Thanks for the Update!

You're doing a great job Bob.

Psst Bob a quick definition of "spammers" mate, means different things on different sites. Now where's that viagra ad I meant to put in me sig ;)