Applying careful restrictions can seriously impact bogus and spambot registrations. One approach consists in the denial of registration from certain domain extensions that are a major source of spambots such .ru, .br, .biz, or freebase addresses such as “gawab.com”. Another, more labor-intensive, consists in manual examination of new registrants. This examination looks at several indicators. First, spambots often delay email confirmation by several hours, while humans will confirm promptly. Second, spambots will tend to create user names that are unique, and unlikely to already be used in the forum, preferring “John84731″ or “JohnbassKeepsie” to the much more common “John.” Third, using a search engine to investigate, one finds hundreds, if not thousands of profiles using the spambot login name, sometimes with the diagnostic spam post, or “banned” label. Thanks to Noticias de Hoy.
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How To Prevent Spamming
Saturday, June 6th, 2009Fighting Spam Spiders
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Spam Spiders are spam softwares or “spambots” that crawl or serach the internet for email addresses to send unsolicited emails to. There are just too much trouble that these spam spiders bring to your inbox.
However, there is a site, WebPoison.org, which fights Internet “spambots” and “spam spiders”. It’s an open project that promises solution to these spamming. The sites gives the spambots bogus HTML web pages that also contain bogus email addresses.