Blocking SPAM
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People in low paid countries do it manually.
I'll reply to this in due course, probably after I've thought if we can block the incidents here using one of our existing inbuilt tools.
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Code
IP Username StopForumSpam zen.spamhaus.org Country Project Honeypot Auto-blockable?
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39.42.191.64 0.02 listed Pakistan not listed Yes
77.111.245.14 ethardsdaisy92 70.969999999999999 not listed France not listed Yes
39.53.217.80 AaizaNoor not listed listed Pakistan not listed Yes
104.236.144.230 cruzpetar 72.730000000000004 not listed USA comment spam Yes
112.120.33.208 xiao1235 not listed not listed Hong Kong not listed No
203.122.5.219 jeanghosh62 82.349999999999994 listed India not listed Yes
105.156.45.114 Liliben Ben not listed listed Morocco honeypot Yes
Setting up StopForumSpam, a DNS RBL (spamhaus), and Project HoneyPot, should block all but one of these spammers.
All the spammers are seemingly real humans, solving CAPTCHA, who browse the site normally, on a normal web browser. Although it's impossible to tell 100%. Therefore you need to use these spammer database services to catch them.
Don't copy my Project HoneyPot settings directly, you'll need to set it up yourself, uploading a script file, and configuring against it. You also need to create a StopForumSpam API key. You can, however, use the RBL Servers option directly.
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- If my response can inspire a community tutorial, that's a great way of giving back to the project as a user.
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The big one is I should have not used the spamhaus RBL. That was marking any machine not meant to be sending e-mails. Not known spammers, but whole IP ranges. So that definitely should not be used and I've taken that out of our configuration here.
This does unfortunately mean there's less that is auto-blockable..
Code
IP Username StopForumSpam Country Project Honeypot Auto-blockable?
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39.42.191.64 0.02 Pakistan not listed No
77.111.245.14 ethardsdaisy92 70.969999999999999 France not listed Yes
39.53.217.80 AaizaNoor not listed Pakistan not listed No
104.236.144.230 cruzpetar 72.730000000000004 USA comment spam Yes
112.120.33.208 xiao1235 not listed Hong Kong not listed No
203.122.5.219 jeanghosh62 82.349999999999994 India not listed Yes
105.156.45.114 Liliben Ben not listed Morocco honeypot No
The other is I forgot to actually configure HTTP:BL. I set up the Project HoneyPot, but I didn't configure the RBL servers option to include that IP.
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- If my reply is too Vulcan or expressed too much in business-strategy terms, and not particularly personal, I apologise. As a company & project maintainer, time is very limited to me, so usually when I write a reply I try and make it generic advice to all readers. I'm also naturally a joined-up thinker, so I always express my thoughts in combined business and technical terms. I recognise not everyone likes that, don't let my Vulcan-thinking stop you enjoying Composr on fun personal projects.
- If my response can inspire a community tutorial, that's a great way of giving back to the project as a user.
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