Based on your experience do you have any suggestions on how to avoid
spammers (at least deter them)?
Ex: Should I try to get their IP address, if so how? How about image
verification? Does ASP.NET do that?
Thanks for your great suggestions?
> Ex: Should I try to get their IP address,
Complete waste of time. IP addresses are laughably simple to spoof if you
know how and, unsurprisingly, spammers know how...
> How about image verification?
Image verification is certainly one way, but that is starting to fall out of
favour these days...
> Does ASP.NET do that?
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I would not rely on IP addresses. YOu can certainly use them to ban people,
but many of the SPAMMERs know how to spoof. You have to remember that it is
their livelihood to get as many views as possible, by whatever means
possible. Send porn to children? Sure, perhaps a few will have a credit card
and be a typical boy. The point is that no matter what you do, you will have
some spammers that SPAM bot.
Overall, you will find that SPAMMERs focus on popular sites, so putting a
huge amount of work into a non-popular site can be overkill. If you have the
time and inclination, then go for it.
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"Cirene" <cir...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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You did mention that people will be posting ads though; it'll be a little
hard to distinguish between legitimate ads and 'spam' ads without human
moderation on it. You could theoretically look for specific keywords, but
those can always be circumvented by anyone dedicated enough.
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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr,
MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
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