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Posted: 04 December 2012 08:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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Thevillageatheist - 04 December 2012 04:45 PM

Thanks Doug and I read the previous posts as well but my problem is in, this sounds stupid, trying to figure out what a spammy word is. And I didn’t have a link attached. And while I have your attention, how do you use the word “here” instead of posting the whole link? Thanks.

Sorry to say, I haven’t much on offer about what constitutes a spammy word. It would presumably be the sort of word you would find in spam, i.e. selling something like pharmaceuticals.

Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the black box, so you may have to do some trial and error.

You use the word “HERE” by posting with the modified HTML tags that this program uses: I will put in spaces so that this doesn’t automatically format itself. [ url = ht tp:// www. blablabla. com ] HERE [/ url ]

The black box will take “www. blablabla. com” and compare it to its list of spam URLs. If it fits, the message will be considered spam (This may not be a problem with that site in general; a single computer at their URL may be compromised and sending out spams. Who knows?) If you use a URL shortener this URL will come out in changed (shorter) form and the spam catcher won’t be able to recognize it.

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Posted: 04 December 2012 08:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]
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Thanks again Doug. I’ll do some trial and error posts just for practice. Actually my blocked post was a response to George and I didn’t mention anything that might be misconstrued as a product. Oh, and the last couple of times I was blocked I waited a couple of minutes, posted again and it went through. Strange.

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Posted: 05 December 2012 05:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]
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Thevillageatheist - 04 December 2012 08:33 PM

Thanks again Doug. I’ll do some trial and error posts just for practice. Actually my blocked post was a response to George and I didn’t mention anything that might be misconstrued as a product. Oh, and the last couple of times I was blocked I waited a couple of minutes, posted again and it went through. Strange.

It’s possible that it will only allow a certain number of posts-per-minute. Some spammers like to come in and post ten times in quick succession, then leave. They don’t want to bother spending several minutes waiting, since time is money to them.

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Posted: 09 January 2013 11:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]
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What does CFI consider spam in posts? I get spam warnings about my posts when there is no spam that I’m aware of.

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Posted: 09 January 2013 12:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]
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garyjones - 09 January 2013 11:51 AM

What does CFI consider spam in posts? I get spam warnings about my posts when there is no spam that I’m aware of.

If you read this thread, gary, you will see the sorts of problems we have regarding spam.

Short answer: it’s not CFI that is doing the considering here, it’s an industry-standard spam-catcher that we have installed in this software. It’s a black box to me and to the tech folks who do our back-end work.

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Posted: 19 April 2013 07:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]
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I am trying to post a reply and keep getting this message:

The form you submitted contained the following errors
Computer says your input might be spam, so it was discarded.
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What’s going on?

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Posted: 19 April 2013 08:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]
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garythehuman - 19 April 2013 07:42 AM

I am trying to post a reply and keep getting this message:

The form you submitted contained the following errors
Computer says your input might be spam, so it was discarded.
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What’s going on?

Gary, read the rest of this thread. AFAIK nothing has changed.

I know it can be bizarre how this spam filter works. It may key off of links you embed in the message, or words you are using. It’s nothing personal, I assure you.

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