The forums software is here, let us know what you find that will resolve this I didn't see anything...
http://www.aspplayground.net

IIS (Internet Information Server), the web server the forums software runs on, could filter this out.

azslow3
Taking into account very strange e-shop failures, they just do not want to spend money/time for normal support. In hope the community and several "watchers" is sufficient.

There are more advanced restrictions, and as I've suggested previously they're a MAJOR inconvenience for the average user and newcomer.

We're actually in the process of researching the forum devs 5.1 update with Akismet integration, but are running into some road blocks. Aside from the massive amount of time I've spent on the clock researching options, I've also spent quite a lot of personal time dealing with spam. I'm not the only one. 
 
You can trivialize it all you want, but you're pretty off the mark with how we feel about improving our services.
 
BTW, if you don't like the newsletters you can unsubscribe.

CakeAlexS
The forums software is here, let us know what you find that will resolve this I didn't see anything...
http://www.aspplayground.net

IIS (Internet Information Server), the web server the forums software runs on, could filter this out.

That too is an extreme oversimplification. 

CakeAlexS
The forums software is here, let us know what you find that will resolve this I didn't see anything...
http://www.aspplayground.net

IIS (Internet Information Server), the web server the forums software runs on, could filter this out.

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]
That too is an extreme oversimplification. 

As I said I haven't seen any functionality in ASP Playground that would help you, and you could filter this out via IIS ISAPI filter. How hard it would be or whether it should be done within the resources you have available (or maybe you need to wait for a later version of forums software) was outside the scope of my comment. I don't see anything extreme about my comment.

I know Ryan said before the restrictions are a major inconvenience for new user, but on pianoworld forum I had
restrictions for first dozen posts and also I had to wait 48 hours to be approved for an account. Maybe make it
harder to join the forum will slow the spammers down and move on to an easier target.

http://www.aspplayground.net/community/What-features-do-you-have-to-fight-Abuse-Spam-m407793.aspx?high=Spam
I agree, not really fascinating list for payed software... There is no demo version so what is really there is hard to say.
 

BTW, if you don't like the newsletters you can unsubscribe.

The lower part of the newsletters is interesting for me. But the fact I get that I am "qualified" while I already have it means there was no any real "qualification". That is the only thing which disturb me, not the fact there is new sale, which is perfectly ok.
 
I understand you are working hard and I appreciate it. But fighting particular not robot spamer is relatively easy task (track ip, track proxy, etc... such people are not really fast) as well as adding anti bot features to the forum (registration with custom fields validation, content spam check, akismet is there)
 
PS. Thanks for the demo link, so normal anti spam is available in this software

Demo here:
http://www.aspplayground.net/demo/m/home.aspx

The ideal would be they allow for posts to be filtered by regex expression, I don't see that so the only way right now would be for it to happen via IIS ISAPI unless a pattern of IP Addresses could be detected (which seems unlikely).

Again not commenting on what should be done, just what I can see, I'm sure Cake is doing the best they can here within the limitations imposed upon them. This sort of thing can be quite tricky.

Well here is the real response. Well done Cakewalk!

azslow3
http://www.aspplayground.net/community/What-features-do-you-have-to-fight-Abuse-Spam-m407793.aspx?high=Spam
I agree, not really fascinating list for payed software... There is no demo version so what is really there is hard to say.
 

BTW, if you don't like the newsletters you can unsubscribe.

The lower part of the newsletters is interesting for me. But the fact I get that I am "qualified" while I already have it means there was no any real "qualification". That is the only thing which disturb me, not the fact there is new sale, which is perfectly ok.
 
I understand you are working hard and I appreciate it. But fighting particular not robot spamer is relatively easy task (track ip, track proxy, etc... such people are not really fast) as well as adding anti bot features to the forum (registration with custom fields validation, content spam check, akismet is there)
 
PS. Thanks for the demo link, so normal anti spam is available in this software

IP's were blocked plenty of times. Our spam is definitely a combination of real people and bots. The majority of the spam is clearly bots considering they can get around the link restrictions.

Try to understand that this software is compiled. We don't have the source code. Overriding its behavior would require a lot of work and would be unpredictable. We are a small company and have chosen to pool our resources into other areas. Combating spam isn't as simple as flipping a switch. Were that the case you wouldn't see it anywhere. ISAPI filters and URL Rewriters can cause you to chase your tail just like anything else. I understand that there are a lot of smart people making suggestions, but if you think we've been idle about solutions you haven't been carrying the weight we have.

The Akismet integration with ASP Playground has only been available for about a week. I've been thinking about it nonstop.

Nevertheless, there is still an option here for all community members to flag posts as spam should automated systems not do the trick. Hopefully this helps.

Re the Newsletter... There is logic built into who receives certain upgrades. Like anything, it is possible that in your case a mistake was made. It seems weird to compare it to spam versus considering there might have been a mistake.

Thanks again! :)