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Forum spam

Does anyone know any good resources for stopping forum spam? I recently set up a finance forum and we're getting a huge amount of crap from Russia.
A lot of these are coming from people with emails ending in the .ru domain so I was thinking about black listing that.
Any ideas?

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  • jamalfatty
    jamalfatty Posts: 960 Forumite
    Same thing happened on a forum I ran, I ended up blacklisting basically all TLD except .com and .co.uk - but especially .ru & .info as all posts made with these domains were spam.
    Do you have a captcha system in place? Perhaps insist on all registrations being approved by an admin before posting?
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