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mbloof
May 16, 2012Aspirant
Forum Password
A hardware/software support forum which requires numbers AND mixed case in the password?? Egads! Whats next? Including symbols??? Outside of my BANK, this is the ONLY website that I've visited in r...
StephenB
May 28, 2012Guru - Experienced User
Yes of course. I just thought it was ironic that he picked this particular thread to spam.
mdgm wrote: I said one of several measures used to try to limit the amount of spam. It's never going to be eliminated completely with a forum like this where posts are moderated after they are posted before being moderated. Some spammers use quite sophisticated techniques and slip through.
forum1.netgear.com actually requires the mods to read and release each post before it becomes publicly visible. That's a heavy burden for the mods, I think what's done here is likely good enough. Though if there were a way to have new user accounts automatically suspended if too many spam posts are reported, that might be a good thing.
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