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Originally Posted by dougk_ff7  I'd be more interested to look at the spam IPs, see how they're posting--are they open proxies? What? Open proxies or similar means should be trivial enough to ban... sure, you won't be able to get rid of everything, and it's still pretty complicated, but who knows. |
I actually asked Panda about this. He said that the bots all showed different IP addresses. I don't know if that's what you're talking about, though.
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Originally Posted by dougk_ff7 I could be wrong, since I'm not terribly active on the forums, but the level of work it takes to eliminate said posts is rather small compared to the amount of work it takes to hack something up to "outsmart" the spammers -- and if you do, how long will it last? |
Since the spambots are all posting stupid "FOR SELL" crap, a filter of not allowing a post with over 20 $ signs to go through SHOULD last a while, and if not then no one else's posts would be affected anyway.