Too much spam in forums lately

Posted by dfernandez on Nov 02, 2013; 4:32pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Too-much-spam-in-forums-lately-tp7587680.html

Hi,

I'm the administrator of the forums at http://forum.thymeleaf.org, and I've been recently seeing a lot of spam messages which I have to manually delete.

Only registered users can post to these forums, and the users the spam come from all have an @outlook.com email address. Most of the messages are shoe-related spam. All of the spammer users are purpose-created (none of them is a normal user who accidentaly posts a spam message).

Until now, spam level was low... but I'm seeing a lot of it lately. For example: 10 messages since yesterday, by 2 different users... that's quite a lot.

Maybe nabble is experiencing any difficulties related to its form security features?

Thanks,
Daniel.