There is only at present one really offending spam agent and it can be stop very simply, having been someone that has wrote similar software but for a different and non illegal purposes. I do know the problems one can cause to the programmer and it really is simply making it difficult for the programmer to create a default template. The over point is making it hard for the programmer to target sites. Here Oxwall has innocently made it easy for anyone to find Oxwall sites and I am requesting they make it harder by removing the said title.
Those that feel they wish to use the troublesome disk space wasting and heavy CPU usage IP spam blockers are welcome to do so. Even
Purusothaman latest plugin will be cron happy
because even if you set the timing of the cron to a longer time period to check it will care CPU usage spikes. Many host will not be that happy with that. But it is an improvement but why pay for something that is not necessary? What anyone may wish to say my method works its simple to impose and it comes from an old school program analyst who hates the complex, loves integrity, simple solutions and has created with the system 4 spam free active sites and many other uses are completely happy.
http://Codewhacker.com being the main proof of the pudding. I have seen so much rubbish explaining how IP blocking is the fantastic way to stop spam. Then seen all the problems and there always will be many i personally can think of a few ways to defeat the spam IP blockers. I can see the object of people think they can make money out of spam blocking. lol. Come on lets stop all this nonsense its very simple to stop spam. Then lets look at the spam agents problem, 1000 plus Oxwall sites with differing profile questions. The programmer then has a total headache how does he create a template to register. Yes he has got around the
captcha key and the email verification. But required questions and they will differ on every site. Can you see the problem?
The fact is as I have said before only one spamming bot at present to contend with with and its at this stage the door should be shut and bolted before the horses run away.
Now what I am seeing here is people dealing with the horses running away before they really have. This is one guy with a few hundred advertisers, that can not be contacted by the way. Causing trouble for possibly three or four reasons, two I would not to like to mention here.
The truth is this can be stopped and Oxwall needs to get behind this now, I rather hope they will as they have integrity and if they do not I will be totally surprised as the answers to the problem are very simple.
The only people giving argument are those that have wrote IP blocking software and those that think they got it right. But to those that want the proof of the pudding so to speak and are being spammed try my system as it really does work. With or without a green room.