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Blocking Tor won't stop any spam. Real spammers have tens of thousands of unique addresses to use; why would they use the 300 or so exit nodes that Tor has ava
by nwh 13y ago
Blocking Tor won't stop any spam.
Real spammers have tens of thousands of unique addresses to use; why would they use the 300 or so exit nodes that Tor has available?
- Kudos 13y agoBlocking Tor stops plenty of spam. Boards.ie blocked Tor and watched spam fall off a cliff.
- buro9 13y agoAs someone who runs some large boards, blocking Tor stops trolls. Does very little for spam. For spam, http://www.stopforumspam.com http://www.stopforumspam.com is pretty awesome. But most likely because the few people who have written scripts for vBulletin or phpBB attempt to hit all of the vBulletin and phpBB sites... so it works pretty well for that group. May have zero effect on something like HN where an entirely different approach may be used (cheap labour?).
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