dimesio wrote: > > Usurp wrote: > > Why are you replacing known spammers with these "banned" strings ? > > > > Some spammers are persistent and just create another forum account and/or post from another IP address after one is banned. This prevents their spam URLs from ever being posted in the first place, regardless of where they're posting from. > > > This forbids anti-spam filters & programs to do their jobs properly. > Set your spam filter to filter out "banned topic" and "banned web site" for the wine-user's list. I am already doing it - but that is not my point. Many antispam programs try to learn from what they analyse with URL schemes and spam contents. Our current approach blocks that.
