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On 11/20/2011 04:33 AM, Peter Junge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any admin of oooforum.org around here?
>
> It's getting spamed with really disgusting content on the front page.
>
> Peter
>

The OOoForum is fully managed to Ed Buck. He has two low level 
administrators of which I am one.

Ed appears to have good intention, but he is the only high level 
administrator. I do not believe that he can give others this access 
because then they would have access to the machine itself, which runs 
other things for the company hosting the forum.

Ed has stated for more than a year that he would update the forum so 
that spammers could be better prevented from accessing the forum. To 
date, he has done nothing but make promises. The user services forum was 
started because some community members desired a forum where 
decentralized control was available so that the required manpower might 
be available to keep things under control.

Presently, spammers seem to use OOoForum as they desire. This is 
particularly difficult when a particular spammer opts to hit the site 
with message after message. The moderators are not able to stop a rogue 
poster, they can only react to the messages themselves. New means of 
preventing the spammers are not available without updating the forum 
software, so this is not likely to change.

The volume of spam has been so great that some moderators have left. I 
rarely post to the forum any more because when I go to the forum I spend 
my time removing spam and trying to lock out spammers based on user name 
and specific IP address - which is a loosing battle.


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Andrew Pitonyak
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