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| Re: SPAM DON'T TRY IT [message #78047 is a reply to message #61350 ] |
Fri, 30 April 2010 21:32  |
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 darkmoon
Messages: 238
Registered: December 2008
Location: Lost without my glasses..... |
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Late to this thread, but...
| Warren wrote on Wed, 02 December 2009 20:12 | The perpetrator has not only been deleted along with all their messages, but there ip block as been deleted as well. If this means someone in china won't be able to post a review. I'm sorry someone who is greedy, spoiled it for you.
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As others have said, please don't apologize. There really seems to be no other way.
So far as I know, the only proven effective method that the international Internet community has ever found for combating network abuse (including spam) is to organize boycotts against ISP's that harbor (or at least do nothing about) abusers. This is done by assembling the assigned IP address blocks of rogue ISP's into authoritative lists that other ISP's, site administrators, and individual users can use to deny them access. (Perhaps the best known application of this method is the "blackhole" list for combating spam email.) The idea is that, when customers of a rogue ISP discover that they can no longer access anything, they will beat feet to another provider.
Most ISP's in the advanced industrial nations (US, Western Europe, a few other places) have got the message loud and clear. The result is that abusers (spammers) have fled mostly to China, Latin America, and East Europe. The regional agencies that allocate IP address blocks to ISP's claim that they try to educate their clients concerning the consequences of harboring abusers; the only real way to get their attention is to keep up the pressure by boycotting the rogues so as to hit them in their profits.
By blocking rogue ISP's, you contribute to this worthwhile effort. If you get an abuser from an ISP that is not known to be a rogue, may I respectfully suggest that you report them to their ISP, identifying yourself as the site admin, and then block the ISP if there is no response from them to repeated offenses. That way, you can say, "I'm sorry, but you have chosen an ISP that harbors network abusers who have come and damaged our site."
| E. E. Nalley wrote on Wed, 02 December 2009 20:35 | As grateful as I am to Sapphire for giving me my start in this community, I can't look at my page on her site for the heart ache of knowing the comments, the only payment we authors got, are destroyed by spam.
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It's also a heartache for readers who wish to comment, and who rely on comments to help them decide what to read. Hopefully, the help that Sapphire is seeking with running her site will clean that up, and then implement an anti-spambot validation code system.
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