On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:53 +0100, Hamish wrote:
Hello I have just had a spammer using their user page after signing up to post spam, a quick google revealed a couple of other sites that had been hit by it. Most of them just replaced the spam with "SpamBot account", I have blocked the user and cleared the spam, but is there a better way to do this?
Are you saying that a user signed up and just created a user page with spam on it? If so, why not just modify your robots.txt to direct search engines and spiders away from user pages and leave the spam alone? It's not hurting anyone by just being there, unless you're concerned that some overwhelming number of these will fill your storage....