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P A R T Y P O K E R are now on my list of companies I would never use.

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I am sick of deleting the comment spam those guys keep pushing out to this site. If it isn't them that are responsible for it, then somehow their referral program is screwed up and irritating 3rd parites are somehow making money by referring to them

I must have deleted 20 comments that somehow got back to them just yesterday alone. My IP address blacklist is growing daily...

Posted by Carl Tyler On 12/15/2005 | Permalink |

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1 - I use Spamcop, http://www.spamcop.net, to report spammers. It's very easy to use, so I suggest you try it out!

Posted by Johan Känngård At 04:32:44 AM On 12/16/2005 | - Website - |

2 - Thanks for the suggestion Jophan. Sadly it isn't email that's the problem (we have spamjam whihc does a great job of stopping spam emails), the spam I'm getting are comments and trackbacks posted to the blog, so I don't think spamcop will help.

Posted by Carl At 09:37:14 AM On 12/16/2005 | - Website - |

3 - I setup a bboard for ruislipwoods and Hillingdon AC with a PHPBB.
In the end I had to ensure that everyone who posted was registered with a valid email before they could post.
It's a sorry state but I think this is only the start of your problems if my experience was anything to go by.
What was bad was that I had info for kids athletics and they these people go and comment and put a link to a porn site.
You have to assume people on the internet are sick until proved otherwise.