Spam…it’s a pain in the neck. My email in-box is full of it daily. Long messages about Viagra (or v.i.a.g.r.a!), dick enlargers, porn films and special wonder drugs. So it really got my livid when I installed PunBB on my site as a forum. Within weeks I was getting dozens of the same spam messages, along with video clips of porn. Well okay I’m not against watching the odd film or two, but I’m not about to promote it on my site! So I went into my admin section daily and deleted the posts and put the urls on the banned list. After a week this becomes frustrating. So I searched for an alternative.<\/p>\n
First thing I found was some PHP code to fix the proble. Simple just find the file post.php and add some provided code in the area suggested. I hadn’t a clue what the code was about to do. But several people had said it worked for them. So I did it. The eager to see if it worked I posted a test message on my forums. Error on line 170! Doh…good job I backed up my original file…which was quickly returned.<\/p>\n
Back to research…after several false journeys I found Akismet <\/a> on a PunBB resource page. Here was a script written for WordPress that has been modified for PunBB and once installed works well…so far!<\/p>\n