Hi,
I've just had a bad case of nasty spamming (from my ex as "revenge" for deleting HER stuff off MY site) and had to manually delete well over a dozen identical messages. So, first of all I wish there was a way to prevent such cross-posting! I know there is a feature already built it to prevent posting the exact same message to the same board, but not for other boards, that is needed. Also, there should be a limit of posts per hour or so, to stop this kind of activity. Also - HOW DO I BAD DYNAMIC IP's?? I know if the poster would be using AOL it would not be a good idea to stop everyone from AOL, but when the spammer uses a unique local provider that nobody else I know uses, I would like to be able to ban the entire host. Any suggestions?
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Okay, found a way to possibly ban dynamic IPs:
in w3t.pm I changed
<pre> WHERE B_Username = $Username_q OR B_Hostname = $Hostname_q</pre>
to
<pre> WHERE B_Username = $Username_q OR B_Hostname LIKE $Hostname_q</pre>
and I entered the IP in this way... <pre>123.456.789.%</pre>
A visit to
www.mysql.com gave me that tip to use the % parameter...
What's still missing is the stopping of cross-posting and "over-posting", because any prevention of posting
identical posts will not help effectively if they change a single letter to get around that - and I have seen that done, too!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Gerrit on 7/31/00 00:21 AM.</EM></FONT>
