Re: spam on forums

Am I able to clean up users@mobility easily rather then deleting message 
by message? There is lot of spam now.
--Petr

Jack Catchpoole wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As many of you have no doubt noticed, the NetBeans forums have been 
> hit quite hard by spam bots in the last few days.  It seems they 
> recently worked
> around the anti-spam measures we had in place, so dozens of bots 
> registered
> and posted hundreds of junk messages all over the place.
>
> So, I've just updated and improved the controls on the forum site to 
> stop or
> at least slow down any spam bots from registering.  Of course this is 
> an ongoing
> battle - in time the bots will no doubt work around these new 
> measures, so
> I've also installed a reporting mechanism.  Every logged in user will 
> see a
> "report" icon at the top right of every post.  It is hard for anyone to
> continually monitor all posts and catch new spam, but if everyone can 
> report
> it we'll be able to respond quickly in future.
>
> Thanks to those of you who reported lists of spam posts and users, it 
> is very
> helpful.  I've already deleted hundreds of posts and dozens of spam 
> accounts,
> and I'll continue that now.  If you do see a spam, please use the report
> button to help us get rid of it quick.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>

-- 
Petr Suchomel <[email protected]>
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Phone +420 2 33009234 (x49234), Fax   +420 2 33009311