Stop Spammer with SMF 1.1.16

[jruskan]

Hi- I've been using Stop Spammer for a year now and its been working great. However, after I upgraded to SMF 1.1.16, it seemed to stop working. I reloaded Stop Spammer 2.3.9, but I'm still getting spam. I see that its not specified to work with 1.1.16, but I was hoping it might. Do you have any idea when/if it might be compatible, or any other suggestions?
It's become quite a problem. Many thanks.

[Snoopy]

As you can see this forum is still using  SMF 1.1.12

I haven't been updating it because I will convert it to Wedge as soon as the first version is ready.

Wedge will be a lot stronger than SMF and a lot more difficult for spammers.

Anyway it looks like Wedge is taking us a little longer than what we thought and also I have seen a few more reports about mods not working properly with SMF 1.1.16 so I suppose the changes from 1.1.15 to 1.1.16 must have been big ones.

So as soon as I get some spear time I will either update this forum to 1.1.16 or create a test forum using 1.1.16 to see exactly what's wrong.

I cannot give you an ETA though, because after the big success of the CD we have just recorded with the Rock band Tebas, we are getting a lot of gigs and I will be travelling a lot with the band in the next weeks. I will try to have it ready as soon as I can though.

In the mean time try adding the mods "httpBL" and "anti spam questions". With these 2 mods working together they normally stop 99.9 % of the spammers so in all the forums I have the 3 mods together, mod StopSpammer never have almost any work left and it doesn't matter too much if it works or not.

You can read more about it in this tutorial I wrote a couple of years ago:

http://www.snoopyvirtualstudio.com/tutoriales/index.php?estudio=httpBL_2&language=english

If you are going to use mod httpBL let me know because there is one little change you need to do for it to work properly and I haven't added it to the tutorial yet.

[jruskan]

Thanks for the reply. I'm a musician too - good goin with the band.

On the SMF mod site, I see "Anti-Spam Verification Questions" for SMF 1.1.7, and your httpBL, which is not specified to work with 1.1.16.

So will they work with 1.1.16?

If you think so, I'll go ahead with them. I noticed the httpBL tutorial seems daunting - I'm not a programmer. I'll give it a try - do you want to give me the additional instructions?

Thanks

[jruskan]

I just loaded the verification questions. Let's see how it goes with that, before you go through the trouble of giving me detailed instructions, unless you have something ready you can just send off about the httpBL. Thnks.

[Snoopy]

The "Anti-spam questions" as far as I know work fine with all versions of SMF, though I changed them a little in my forum (as I suppose you saw when you registered here).

Mod httpBL has been reported in the support thread as working fine with 1.1.16 but I haven't specified it yet in the mod's page because I haven't checked it myself, but I suppose I should trust the people who reported it.

The main instructions to install it are already in the tutorial. The only thing that is not there is a problem first reported by Sea Mac here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=366399.msg3080909#msg3080909

I suggested him a small change in the warning page to sort that problem here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=366399.msg3081023#msg3081023

If you find it difficult to follow the instructions, call my through Skype when you see here I am connected and I will see exactly what you need help with.

 
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