Spam Problems: WSN Support

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Spam Problems

Jenny
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Usergroup: Customer
Joined: May 11, 2003
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Total Posts: 119

Posted 05/10/05 - 12:48 AM:	#1
I'm running two directories with WSN Links, and one of them has been the target of spammers for quite some time now. As I require validation of everything, they never actually made into the listing, but it's very annoying nevertheless. But while I could handle the attempts to get some fake sites listed - I banned most of the domains they used, there were only a few sites each time, and they were easily to spot, as were the member accounts - when I logged in this morning I found 30 fake comments, and they were LONG. Each of them packed with URLs to some poker games and medication and what not. I already know this kind of spamming from my blog comments I guess there's no way to stop them submitting things, but is there a way to restrict the length of comments, like we can limit the characters in the description? I couldn't find anything like that.

Paul
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Joined: Dec 21, 2001
Location: Northern California
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Posted 05/10/05 - 06:21 PM:	#2
You have the security image turned on, right? Odd that they'd make it through that (or is it a member submitting, not just a random spambot?) Comment length limits were added for WSN Forum, so they'll be in Links 3.20 (which should be ready for an english-only beta soon, though the multilingual version looks like it could take me a while).
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