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The No List Virus is spreading rapidly at retail store check out counters across the country. Common responses to customer questions by store clerks are a follow:1. No, you can’t use that coupon. It has expired. 2. No, that item is not on sale. I don’t care what the store flyer says. 3. No, we don’t carry that here. 4. No, we can’t order it for you. 5. No, you can’t order less than a pound. 6. No, the manager is not available. 7. No, you can’t have 2 flavors of ice cream i
Wrong! They just kept coming. It now appeared that the forum was under attack from human spammers. Cant' you just see someone hunched over a keyboard in a third world country pounding out spam to the forum?
The registration
In my recent interview with Linda Furiate of Portraits in Determination, we discussed testimonials, why they’re integral to your business, and how to go about getting great ones.Kelly: Why should we take client testimonials into consideration when it comes to marketing?Linda: I feel the main reason would be “credibility.” Before you hire someone, you typically want to know what others have to say about their experience with this person or company. Especially if they’re people like you, with simi
As with all other aspects of the Internet, the forums are subject to receiving spam and receive tons of it. If you read the forums for forum administrators, you will see that prevention of spam is an ongoing discussion topic.
Most of the volume spammers are robots (bots) that find a forum that does not have the proper security provisions installed and then start pumping out registrations and postings to the forum.
From personal experience, I established a forum with very little previous knowledge of forums. I set the options to what appeared to be logical. At first, the forum did not require that a person be registered to post on the forum. This was quickly changed because of all the "drive by postings" that were posted that were usually worthless and pornographic. If a person has to register to post, the posts are usually more meaningful.
Things were fine until the bots discovered the forum and the spam postings began. The forum options were changed to require that the person identify numbers and letters from a graphic during registration. This was designed to defeat robot spammers.
Wrong! They just kept coming. It now appeared that the forum was under attack from human spammers. Cant' you just see someone hunched over a keyboard in a third world country pounding out spam to the forum?
The registration o
The Internet is by its nature a dynamic and constantly evolving medium. This can he confusing for businesses operating online because business models must constantly evolve with the medium.However, the Internet has “grown-up” since the dot bomb crash and has levelled out in many ways, offering entrepreneurs a fairly stable platform to establish a lasting business. Websites like eBay, Amazon and even our local Kalahari.net are testimony to the fact that the Internet provides opportunities similar to tho
As with all other aspects of the Internet, the forums are subject to receiving spam and receive tons of it. If you read the forums for forum administrators, you will see that prevention of spam is an ongoing discussion topic.
Most of the volume spammers are robots (bots) that find a forum that does not have the proper security provisions installed and then start pumping out registrations and postings to the forum.
From personal experience, I established a forum with very little previous knowledge of forums. I set the options to what appeared to be logical. At first, the forum did not require that a person be registered to post on the forum. This was quickly changed because of all the "drive by postings" that were posted that were usually worthless and pornographic. If a person has to register to post, the posts are usually more meaningful.
Things were fine until the bots discovered the forum and the spam postings began. The forum options were changed to require that the person identify numbers and letters from a graphic during registration. This was designed to defeat robot spammers.
Wrong! They just kept coming. It now appeared that the forum was under attack from human spammers. Cant' you just see someone hunched over a keyboard in a third world country pounding out spam to the forum?
The registration
Do you know that many business owners market their businesses by writing content for their online newsletters (e-zine)? And if you don't enjoy writing, the authors make those articles available to you.You can find both articles in article directories and article bank located on the Internet. Do you know the difference?Article directories are one-way places on a Web site where the site's owner lists their articles. The articles maybe available as free or paid content for other publishers. View
From personal experience, I established a forum with very little previous knowledge of forums. I set the options to what appeared to be logical. At first, the forum did not require that a person be registered to post on the forum. This was quickly changed because of all the "drive by postings" that were posted that were usually worthless and pornographic. If a person has to register to post, the posts are usually more meaningful.
Things were fine until the bots discovered the forum and the spam postings began. The forum options were changed to require that the person identify numbers and letters from a graphic during registration. This was designed to defeat robot spammers.
Wrong! They just kept coming. It now appeared that the forum was under attack from human spammers. Cant' you just see someone hunched over a keyboard in a third world country pounding out spam to the forum?
The registration
Automotive direct mail is one of the most commonly read types of direct mail. In fact, an article by DM News cites a survey showing that 73% of car buyers respond to direct mail.Why do so many auto dealers and manufactures use direct mail marketing?1. Direct Mail is Cost-Effective Automotive direct mail campaigns can be shaped around any marketing budget. Direct mail can be as simple as a 4" x 6" postcard, or as complex as multi-part letter kit. The smart automotive marketer can use
Things were fine until the bots discovered the forum and the spam postings began. The forum options were changed to require that the person identify numbers and letters from a graphic during registration. This was designed to defeat robot spammers.
Wrong! They just kept coming. It now appeared that the forum was under attack from human spammers. Cant' you just see someone hunched over a keyboard in a third world country pounding out spam to the forum?
The registration
Building up high traffic takes time. Gaining the confidence of readers so that they become regular visitors to your site, takes time.The same is true with any offline business. But we also know that virtually every offline business starts generating money even when it has very few prospects. Even when it is still very new in the marketplace. Why is it then that we have all come to meekly accept that it is okay for our online businesses to make zero dollars for years as we struggle to build up enough tr
Wrong! They just kept coming. It now appeared that the forum was under attack from human spammers. Cant' you just see someone hunched over a keyboard in a third world country pounding out spam to the forum?
The registration option was changed to require the administrator to approve each registration. This generated a message to my forum mailbox for each bot registration. This amounted to 30 -40 attempted registrations per day.
After exhausting my knowledge on the problem, I built a web page at the forum address explaining that until further notice, the forum was suspended due to spam.
I looked for help and then posted a project on rentacoder.com. After receiving several bids, the project was awarded to a coder from England with a great performance rating.
He informed me that phpBB is so well known that the spammers can determine which graphic is being displayed at registration so the bot can answer the challenge question correctly. (So much for the visual recognition).
He installed a modification (also called mod or hack) to phpBB that will present the person (or bot) who is registering with various questions that only a human can read and answer. The forum administrator can change the questions and answers so the questions are not common on all phpBB sites.
Another feature he installed is the phpBB toolkit. This is a very handy tool for administering forum users. It facilitated the mass deletion of the many spam users that had already registered.
He also advised me to change the registration option so the forum sends a confirmation email to each new registration requiring a response before the account
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