Re: Problem for the security of my forum

Posted by Marc Martin on Sep 14, 2013; 9:32pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Serious-problem-for-the-security-of-my-forum-tp7586507p7586508.html

Yes, I've been experiencing the same problem... if this keeps up, my registered user list will one day be 99% spammers.  :-(

The best solution I've seen is to only let "Members" (NOT "Anyone" or "Registered Users") post and reply to messages, and then you should add all known non-spammer email addresses to the members list.    So that becomes an extra step for the admin to determine if the new person is a spammer.  It's pretty obvious with these weird gmail accounts that these are spammers, though, so I just ban them immediately without any research.

But again, I think there probably could be some sort of improvement in how Nabble handles this, so the registered user lists isn't dominated with spammer email addresses.