Spammers and a New Forum?

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  • interfx
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 737
    • 4.2.X

    Spammers and a New Forum?

    Wasn't sure the right place to post this, but have just launched a new forum 2 days ago. I'm glad that I installed StopForumSpam right from the beginning, because after 36 hours I had over 25 spammers stopped...

    My question is, how do they know that quick to start spamming a new forum? Seems amazing...

    Imagine if you were a new user of VB, and didn't know to install this type of spam filter - how frustrating this would be...
  • BirdOPrey5
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2008
    • 9613
    • 5.6.3

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    You results are not typical. I know forums that have been up for months before they got routine spammers. Looking at your license the simple fact you have forum in your domain name may well be part of the problem. Once your domain gets listed no doubt there are spammers reading in the lists of all new domains looking for forums to spam. This is my guess, because like I said, you result is not typical.

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