From: Gadi Evron (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2006 - 04:07:33 EDT
This is a known problem with known solutions. There are RBL's, bayesian
filters, behaviour filters, and what not.
For a phpbb forum I'd suggest a captcha, although that's extremely
annoying.
This is becoming the next (last) spamvertising medium and Google poisoning
medium. I and others spend hours on this issue every day. We even have a
mailing list for this.
Good luck,
Gadi.
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Mark Foster wrote:
> I assume the ongoing problems that forum administrators have with people
> randomly signing up to forums - even closed ones requiring admin approval
> for all accounts - for the purpose of spamming their web urls around the
> place is an old one.
>
> I run such a forum and have started implementing /16 level bans to try to
> slow them down. Obviously not the best solution.
>
> The forum in question is phpBB (I know - whos isn't) and i'm yet to have
> time to actually start digging into whether there are better ways of
> responding to this issue. (Volume isnt prohibitive - yet.)
>
> In the most recent case the IP address space that the website concerned
> points back to is in the Ukraine and the listed abuse contact is on a
> domain which is canned due to invalid contact details provided.
>
> My question then is - what happens now? The IP address space is
> essentially 'untraceable' except perhaps through
> bandwidth-supplier-agreements or somesuch. Shouldn't IP's with similarly
> invalid contact details be 'suspended' after being given opportunity to
> provide updated, correct details?
>
> The IP range in question is 195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255 and a snippet
> of the whois info provided is as follows:
>
> remarks: ****************************************
> remarks: * Abuse contacts: *
> remarks: ****************************************
>
> person: Vsevolod Stetsinsky
> address: 01110, Ukraine, Kiev, 20Á, Solomenskaya street. room 206.
> phone: +38 050 6226676
> e-mail:
> nic-hdl: VS1142-RIPE
> source: RIPE # Filtered
>
>
> Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal
> with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE?
>
>
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