I was hit by the same spammer this morning. I already deleted and banned them. Not too bad...only three spammer bannings so far for my cubit since I opened.
Spam is usually a post containing links to another site (usually something that has no relevance to the forum it is posted to) that is posted by someone who joined cubits just for that post. They are trying to increase traffic to other sites by adding links. The more links back to a site the higher that sites ranking is in the search engines.
Name: Trish Whitinger Jacksonville, TX Helper and Wife of the Cubit Master
Zanymuse wrote:Spam is usually a post containing links to another site (usually something that has no relevance to the forum it is posted to) that is posted by someone who joined cubits just for that post. They are trying to increase traffic to other sites by adding links. The more links back to a site the higher that sites ranking is in the search engines.
Many of those links also go to phishing sites.
My motto is... If in doubt boot them out.
Good point, Zany. I was just addressing C-mail spam, but there are plenty of forum spam as well!
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