Spam

I know you have all noticed the spammers lately. I've been suspending as fast as I can but they come back under another name.  I have found the site they are sending us to and have reported them and asked for it to stop.  Hopefully they will comply...if not all I can do is keep suspending.  Sorry for any inconvenience.  Gail

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Permalink Reply by Donsimoni Bernadette on January 9, 2011 at 5:09pm
Hello Gail, I saw this !!! Since the bigenning of December, i had this sort of "polution" on my email box !!! Thank's for your work !! Have a good day of Sunday, You, all the members of the site and Michael, the best for the end, of course.... Hugs Bye BD
Permalink Reply by sylvie boisvert on January 9, 2011 at 5:48pm
Thanks Gail, I had  reported it to the web people, with the form you gave me the link to. It seems to be a pharmaceutical company and lately, they use one name ID's. The most annoying thing is that, as you know, we get both a message from the spammer and one from the  "Michael Bolton added...". I hope the web people can do something more permanent so you don't have to keep doing this, poor kid! Well in any case, God bless you for the work you continue to do sweetie, it's very much appreciated. Have a great day! Big hugs, sincerely, Sylvie from Canada
Permalink Reply by Dianna Shipman on January 9, 2011 at 10:29pm

Hi Gail,

It really is a shame there are so many idiots out there creating problems for everybody else!

Can I just say I am member's of other forums and some of them you have to have your first 15 or sometimes 30 post approved before they let you just post and they don't have any worries with this sort of thing at all.

When I see them in my inbox i just find them annoying but not so much for me but for you it has to be a real pain wasting your time on these clowns

Hopefully they will stop for you.

Love Dianna xxx

Permalink Reply by Gail on January 10, 2011 at 3:13am
The admin of Ning or the Bolton Admin?  Gail
Permalink Reply by Jennifer Steadman on January 10, 2011 at 7:02pm

When we joined the site we had to complete and verify our e-mail addresses didnt we, but we didnt have to complete a 'Captcha' which if Ning install a Captcha feature this should help greatly at reducing the script written spam posts. (A Captcha is a code of letters and numbers that is usually hidden in amongst a patterned block.)

 

Sadly, however, it wont stop those members who are paid to infiltrate blogs and forums by adding themselves as members, but it will make it easier to detect, delete and ban them once they have identified themselves with a post.

 

I find it incredibly hard to comprehend that these companies believe that any one of us will actually visit their site and make a purchase of Viagra or prednisilone and would be quite interested to see the 'hit' figure sales from spam postings such as on this site?

 

Lets hope Ning can do something to stop these annoying posts.

 

Love Jennifer XXX

Permalink Reply by sylvia doughty on January 10, 2011 at 7:21pm

Hi Everyone,

 

It is a pity we can't REPLY back to them - anyone got any good suggestions what we could write - only joking, hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!   

 

Sylvia.    Wee Scottish friend.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Steadman on January 12, 2011 at 11:23pm

Hey, I reckon we could send them some adverts of our own?

 

What do you reckon?

 

I've got a few ideas they might enjoy!! Ha Ha!!

 

Love Jennifer XX

Permalink Reply by sylvie boisvert on January 10, 2011 at 8:48pm
Hi Jennifer, just a quick word about captchas, it's impossible for Jaws to read them so hope there's another way around it. Take care. Hugs, sincerely, Sylvie from Canada
Permalink Reply by Robin on January 13, 2011 at 1:02am

Thanks Gail, I keep letting you know when I see this junk on here.

Robin

Permalink Reply by Pilar on January 10, 2011 at 7:57pm
Thanks so much, Gail... is quite disgusting, but hope they can stop them soon!!!!
Permalink Reply by Gail on January 11, 2011 at 4:42am
I've checked our controls and the captcha is turned on..so new members have to fill that in...that's been on the whole time. I've just turned on the verify the email address as well so maybe the two together will be too much for them to keep doing.  So far nothing today so maybe between the contacts we have done and changing the verification it will stop completely...crossing fingers.
Permalink Reply by Jennifer Steadman on January 12, 2011 at 11:21pm

I'll keep my fingers crossed on this one as well.

 

Sylvie, regarding Captchas, I didnt realise that Jaws readers cant read them. There is usually a 'disabled wheelchair' image with a small speaker by the captcha, and I often wondered if it was possible for the code to be read out for the user to listen to and sign in that way? Does this make sense to you or doesnt this work this way? I just sort of presumed this is how it worked?

 

Love Jennifer XX

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