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two-questions-only:
For guests browsing is allowed but not searching. Why?
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: two-questions-only on January 03, 2011, 07:52:22 pm ---What is the motivation to forbid guests to search but not read this forum?
--- End quote ---
Avoid SPAM.
two-questions-only:
Both search and read are read operations and if you do not define spam as any "bad" traffic requesting data from the server (I know that there exists bot attacks which may sink any web site) neither browsing or searching implies spam so I still do not understand that policy.
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: two-questions-only on January 04, 2011, 05:51:52 pm ---I still do not understand that policy.
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We have seen SPAM "posting" parts of other forum posts to avoid being filtered as the message seems authentic in that case. I don't know how spam bots do so, but after restricting access for guests a lot this seems to have disappeared.
I've re-enabled searching for guests now. However, if these effects come back I'll disable it again.
Jenna:
I can't imagine how it can be related, or whether it is related, but since the forums search is reenabled for guests (the last two days), the amount of new registered (known) spammers increased significantly to 25 to 40 per day.
Luckily they are recognized by our anti-spam system and never approved, so they can not post.
To see if it is really related or not, I disable Forum search for guests again (hopefully temporary).
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