Computer help please

[Hellow]

I personally was deleting over 100 spam Posts TWICE A DAY, and I was one of three Mods which worked the Forum. I just have never seen any other instance where the Spammers were so aggressive, which included everything from Viagra to XXX. Additionally, it didn't matter that I banned the User as well, given that much of the Posting were done by a "bot", which is a Computer generated Posting. It became so intense, that he just shut it down and I really was upset about that. So many of our Latino friends need that kind of help, and well... I'm just really ticked off about it being totally out of our control to control.

There are two things you could have done that come to mind instantly:

1. You could have enabled moderator checking of new registered users. Most spambots aren't smart enough to use normal nicknames when they register.
2. You could have implemented a server or network-side blacklist of common spam hostnames and IP addresses. That would have eliminated most of the spam and cut it down so the administrators could handle the cases that get through.

[SWHouston]

Karen, Hellow,

Thank both of you for your very informative replies.

I'll pass that information along.

Thanks again,
S.W.