olpa, OSS developer

For my goals, the query “phpbb spam” should return Textual Confirmation and Links Rejector tools on the first page. No luck so far, but I managed a nice trick to get there indirectly:

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I’d like to announce a new blog: Spam Bots and CAPTCHAs. Updated twice a week. RSS.

I think that the minor updates of my bbAntiSpam tools are of no interest for the readers of this blog. On the other side, I need to inform about updated. Therefore, I’ve created a separate RSS feed, subscribe to get notifications.

Finally, Advanced Textual Confirmation (ATC) is released.

ATC is an universal tool to stop forum spam, wiki spam, guestbook spam, comment spam, and other web spam. It’s an improvement of the highly popular phpBB MOD “Textual Confirmation”.

Thanks to great efficiency and easy installation, ATC is a must-have tool for any webmaster.

My blog is protected by Advanced Textual Confirmation.

* No more spam.
* No complains from the visitors.

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I’ve just answered on a question if it worth having a forum on a shareware site. Yes. Here is why:

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Life is strange. The serious software such as TeXML or Consodoc are used by few people only. The side-development, phpBB antispam, is more popular than all the other products together.

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Created an avatar for use in phpBB forums:

Press-release: “bbAntiSpam Tools: The First Anti-Spam Solution For phpBB Forums Has Been Released“.

I’ve got stuck in phpBB. I’ve just announced new anti-spam hack: Textual Confirmation. Yet another must-have for phpBB. Discussion on phpbb.com.

Recently I got a complaint from an european user who wanted to buy bbAntiSpam. He was unpleasantly surprised that the actual price was two times more than the declared price.

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Supporting community sites causes pain. One of the new pains is phpBB spam. I’ve collected my recommendations in the article “phpBB Antispam HOWTO“.

Recently I submitted bbAntiSpam to phpBBHacks.com, and now it is accepted. The site owners, however, have re-written the description:

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I’m an owner of a small phpBB forum. Some time ago I was so tired of spam, that spent some time looking for a solution. I didn’t find anything I like, so I’ve developed the solution myself:

bbAntiSpam

I highly recommend it to everyone. Installation is less than 1 minute.