On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:43, dimesio <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've deleted the messages, but I don't have the power to ban accounts. Ah, ok. moderator access vs. admin access? (I read via mailing list, where the deletes don't show up :( ...) (I have checked it on the forum though...) The issue is if UI enable gmail's spam filter, the list unsubscribes me due to bounces... For the forum, it might also be useful to use those bad IP blacklists and ask for more captchas for users from those IPs. (banning those IPs are annoying, I'm behind a "transparent" ISP proxy which I cam't turn it off and the proxy's IPs are often banned from some sites...) (Something like the SBL, DBL and XBL from Spamhaus might be valid sources...) > Martin Gregorie wrote: >Is it possible to put a spam filter in the loop? I'm not sure about the mailing list / integration, but for a standard phpBB 2, I'm not aware of such a point (which does not involve editing the code...) It does have a profanity filter, which might be useful for destroying links regularly spammed and to URL shortening services. (Which hides URLs and is unnecessary outside Twitter) It should be possible for the mailing list part though, which would reduce the impact... (Keep mailing list spam of the forum (and mailing list) and forum spam of the mailing list...) My _*guess*_ of the of the architecture for the integration would be: Form posts gets submitted to forum database and mailing list (from the special wineforum-user account). Mailing list posts gets sent out to subscribers. It is received (probably by a special subscriber) by the integration, that adds it to the forum's database. Mailing list software archives it. If this is the case, they run mostly independant, and the intergation just ensures that everything appears everywhere (using different mechanisms in each direction... This would also require seperate filtering for the mailing list and forum :( ) Gert
