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[fu-sen]

I understand that the spam reduction is effective.
But I make the question that a human being cannot interpret unhappy.

I meet a person giving a topic with this problem in other distribution forum.
Please understand that abstruseness produces only it.

[richb]

Having had to deal with very large numbers of spammers with the "easy" traditional questions, I stand by our current methods. Many people have successfully registered without issue since they were implemented. Indeed there have been some who had difficulty. But weighing the positives and negatives , the decision to use the existing questions was a good one. And unless some other spam blocking method can be shown to be effective, they will remain.

[jdmeaux1952]

I can understand trying to "kill" the spammers. But some forums do ask obscure questions.

One Music Theory forum I go to asked "Which animal was not on the Ark?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY

Not only do you need to be familiar with the music, but also with other stories.

[richb]

I can understand trying to "kill" the spammers. But some forums do ask obscure questions.

One Music Theory forum I go to asked "Which animal was not on the Ark?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY

Not only do you need to be familiar with the music, but also with other stories.

I do not think ours are obscure.

[lucky9]

Have to have some protection. I would think that a non-english speaker might have more trouble though. That's not something that you can fix very easily.

[bicyclist56]

User Dark can not write a message on the forum, it gets in return: "Your IP 213.87.144.105 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=213.87.144.105". It is connected via 3G network. What should he do?
The Firefox extension - Frigate - allowed him to write a post, but he'd like to go without him.

[richb]

User Dark can not write a message on the forum, it gets in return: "Your IP 213.87.144.105 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=213.87.144.105". It is connected via 3G network. What should he do?
The Firefox extension - Frigate - allowed him to write a post, but he'd like to go without him.

The users IP has been flagged by Spamhaus. Blockage is automatic and part of the software we use. The user would need to contact Spamhaus and get his IP removed from their lists. This can be done via their website.

[antiX-Dave]

User Dark can not write a message on the forum, it gets in return: "Your IP 213.87.144.105 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=213.87.144.105". It is connected via 3G network. What should he do?
The Firefox extension - Frigate - allowed him to write a post, but he'd like to go without him.

The users IP has been flagged by Spamhaus. Blockage is automatic and part of the software we use. The user would need to contact Spamhaus and get his IP removed from their lists. This can be done via their website.

Or disconnect his 3g connection and reconnect so hopefully he receives another ip address

[richb]

User Dark can not write a message on the forum, it gets in return: "Your IP 213.87.144.105 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=213.87.144.105". It is connected via 3G network. What should he do?
The Firefox extension - Frigate - allowed him to write a post, but he'd like to go without him.

The users IP has been flagged by Spamhaus. Blockage is automatic and part of the software we use. The user would need to contact Spamhaus and get his IP removed from their lists. This can be done via their website.

Or disconnect his 3g connection and reconnect so hopefully he receives another ip address

Yes, but I would think he would want that information deleted from a spam list in any case. Do both.