Linked by Adam S on Mon 17th Nov 2008 15:44 UTC, submitted by sonic2000gr
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Spam is one of the reasons why bsdforums.org closed doors. It's such a pity. I have sent the admin a few emails offering free help to solve the spam problem, and I have received no reply whatsoever, not even a "No, thanks".
Spam was just a symptom of a more basic problem. (The site was reportedly abandoned by its only admin.)
Anyway, that's water under the bridge now.







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2007-03-04
I'm happy to see freebsd.org has at last its own forum. It should have been implemented right from the beginning. I see they are using reCaptcha as validation scheme, this is nice but not enough. It is just a matter of time before spammers find this nice forum and start bugging us. I hope the admins activate the challenge/response antispam scheme with a question specific to FreeBSD, for instance: "Give one of the names of the FreeBSD mascot?" I doubt a manual spammer would insist. Spam is one of the reasons why bsdforums.org closed doors. It's such a pity. I have sent the admin a few emails offering free help to solve the spam problem, and I have received no reply whatsoever, not even a "No, thanks". I have also offered free help to improve their web site. No response. Anyway, it's been a few months bsdforums.org has been down, let's turn the page and head over to forums.freebsd.org!