Vermin spamming scum

[silverseven]

No need to abandon ship guys , we will work something out soon....

The forum is far from dead or sinking ...it just needs a little tune up and carb adjustment....though a v8 swap could be interesting!
( heck that's my answer for almost everything lol)


As I said earlier John, it won't take much arm twisting on my part to help you out, and don't think we will have any trouble finding help.
I'll pm you later .....

Ron.

[trekcarbonboy]

Has anyone contacted Snitz Forums to see if they now have a security procedure that can be put in place? In reading through the Snitz Forum-forum there appears to be a Gatekeeper-Anti spam add on available.
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62459

Craig '75 2.0 FHC

[saabfast]

My 2p, FWIW,is that taking on advertising needs to be carefully done. I belonged to 2 Saab forums, Saabscene which was the leader and UKSaabs. A few years ago Saabscene got 'taken over' by a commercial organisation. Don't know the story but there was lots of advertising which slowed the site down badly and irritated. Members gradually fell away (including me) and it became a shadow of its former self. UKSaabs has the same friendly feel and banter as this site while sorting any technical problems and VERY limited advertising from a few specialist suppliers. It works well and has gone from strength to strength. I don't know the technicalities (just grateful to those who do and set these things up) but I have never known any problem with spammers. If it means anything the credit at the bottom is 'Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group'. It does seem to work well.

Alan
Saab 9-5 2.3t Vector Auto Estate
'81 TR7 DHC

[Maxwell]

<font color="red">UKSaabs has the same friendly feel and banter as this site while sorting any technical problems and VERY limited advertising from a few specialist suppliers. It works well and has gone from strength to strength.</font id="red">

Alan - I believe the use of advertisers will only be considered\used as a 'last resort' and only if it can't be funded or sustained any other way. I also believe that at the moment all the costs are being picked up by Jay...

Reading through the various previous posts it seems that there has already been an element of 'financial' support offered by some of the more regular forum members keen to retain the site in much the same format as it is now. However, we're all growing older and the need to attract the newer TR7\Wedge owner to both the site and either the TRDC and\or the TWOA is paramount. We cannot do this with a virtual lock-out.

Maxwell [:o)]


2.0 TR7 FHC \ Current
1.8 Mazda MX5 \ Current

[FI Spyder]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by saabfast</i>

It works well and has gone from strength to strength. I don't know the technicalities (just grateful to those who do and set these things up) but I have never known any problem with spammers. If it means anything the credit at the bottom is 'Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group'. It does seem to work well.
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That's the second time phpBB has been mentioned with favourable comment.



- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[Cobber]

Other forum software platforms that I've used that are pretty good are:
http://www.vbulletin.com/

http://www.kunena.org/ which is a forum extension based on http://www.joomla.org/

"Keep calm, relax, focus on the problem & PULL THE BLOODY TRIGGER"

80'Triumph TR7, 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
'98 MG-F, 69'Ford F250.