Inappropriate posts on discussion forums

[Stan Hilliard]

I have a discussion forum at http://samplingplans.com/forum/forum.htm
which is recently receiving more junk posts than valid posts.

The junk posts have lots of links in the, most to Romanian tourist
sites. I think that the perpetrators can increase the google ratings
of their links that way.

The majority of the offending links contain http://www.anuntu.ro/
Other links are to folders or subwebs within that.

The junk messages are completely inappropriate for the technical
discussions on my forum.

Q - Is there any way that I can prevent the junk messages? The forum
is built with Microsoft FrontPage.

Q - Is there any legal recourse?

Q - Can anyone see how I can contact the perpetrator by email. I did
not recognize an email address on http://www.anuntu.ro/

Help will be appreciated, Stan Hilliard

 

[DI]

Take the FrontPage discussion forum down that is all you can do

 

[DI]

Or you can try
http://forum.snitz.com/specs.asp

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

There is usually little legal recourse because you have to show that someone
at that company actually made the post (nearly impossible). Also, most users
will spoof the email address so even if they left one it probably is bogus.

A lot of these spams can now be done with robots automatically submitting to
any discussion forum they find. The alternative is to use a more complex
forum that requires the user to validate something before posting, like an
image containing fuzzy or squigly letters, as well as providing you with
some administrative functionality to eliminate bogus messages.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage