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Hi,
I'm looking for a Module to avoid Spam-Mails in the phorum. I'm using still phorum 3. At the moment I can't upgrade the whole phorum to version 5. Sorry!
birdyleg

only phorum5 supports real modules. you won't have much luck with phorum3 in this regard.
but I also don't know any "anti-spam"-module as its very tricky to do ... phorum is not a mailsystem.

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Thomas Seifert

I use a modified version of the "bad behaviour" plugin for mediawiki.
It can be easily adapted to protect your site and your forum as well.
It took me 5 minutes to get it up and running.

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Amilcar Lucas
www.kdevelop.org webmaster

Can you post the file here Amilcar?

It would be intersting to see

[www.ioerror.us]

It tells you all you need to know.

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Amilcar Lucas
www.kdevelop.org webmaster

Okay, okay, I have only a little knowledge about php. So it would be great, if you could get an introduction, how I can install "the bad-behaviour". Where is the "extensions" directory in the phorum and in which files I have to include the "include"? And what should I change in the "bad-behaviour-mediawiki.php"? Thank you very much.
birdyleg

Quickly looking at it, it seems to come down to:

* Install "bad behaviour" on your server;
* Include bad-behavior-generic.php from a common part of the code.

You can either hack common.php to have the include somewhere at the start of that file or use a module that hooks in to the "common" hook.

I gave the last option a try. The attached file contains a module for implementing bad behaviour in Phorum. I did not do any real testing, but I think this should work. The latest Bad Behaviour distro is included in the package. Remember to update the settings in mods/bad_behaviour/distro/bad-behaviour-generic.php, according to the Bad Behaviour docs.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Quickly looking at it, it seems to come down to:

* Install "bad behaviour" on your server;
* Include bad-behavior-generic.php from a common part of the code.

You can either hack common.php to have the include somewhere at the start of that file or use a module that hooks in to the "common" hook.

I gave the last option a try. The attached file contains a module for implementing bad behaviour in Phorum. I did not do any real testing, but I think this should work. The latest Bad Behaviour distro is included in the package. Remember to update the settings in mods/bad_behaviour/distro/bad-behaviour-generic.php, according to the Bad Behaviour docs.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

just curious without reading through all the site ... what does it check against?

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Thomas Seifert

HTTP headers, it detects if the client is a normal browser or if it is a robot.
It validates the IP of known and harmless bots, and blocks everybody else.

So basically a script that does automated spam postings has to be very well written in order to pass the tests.

Goood for us, most of them aren't, they just try to be as fast as possible, and bad behaviour catches them, I love it.

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Amilcar Lucas
www.kdevelop.org webmaster