Here is a little incite to what a day in the life of a network admin can be. This is from one day last week, but it is typical of most days. My day will start at 4:30AM most mornings and end anywhere form 8:00PM to Midnight. It all depends on how much work I have scheduled or any problems that I find while doing my checks. Read on to see what a typical day is like.
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Combating vBulletin Forum Post and PM Spam
Posted by – February 14, 2009
One of the most frustrating jobs for any vBulletin forum admin or moderator is the never ending fight to stop post and PM spam. There are spambots that specifically target vBulletin forums. vBulletin has helped by adding Akismet spam protection, captcha protection, simple question and answer or reCaptcha to help combat post spam. This was effective until the vBulletin captcha was cracked. The Q&A, in my testing also doesn’t seem, to be effective. These are the measure I’ve taken to help combat the fight against spam.
To stop the post spam I use reCaptcha. It seems to be the most effective against spambots, but, for the low life spammers that still do things manually even reCaptcha doesn’t help. The main purpose of these spammers is to get backlinks to their sites and services. What I did was create a new usergroup called Registered Members. The new group has the same privileges as the default Registered Users group.
Read on to see how to set up the registered users group and the new registered members group permissions to help combat vBulletin forum spam.
Extreme VB and Visual .Studio.Net
Posted by – November 23, 2008
Extreme VB and Visual Studio.Net is the grandfather of our network. The site has been online since 1995. It is a premier resource for the latest news and information for Visual Basic.Net and Visual Studio.Net programmers. There are many source code examples, tutorials and guides available on the site.
Users can submit articles easily and the moderating team makes sure that only the best articles are added to the site.
If you are a Visual Basic.Net or Visual Studio.Net programmer what not check out Extreme VB and Visual Studio.Net.
Schwarz Network Opens
Posted by – November 23, 2008
Schwarz Network officially opens it’s doors.
Schwarz Network is the brainchild of me, Bob Schwarz. I own a wide variety of sites and until now never had one place as a news hub to keep the visitors up to date. Our network consists of a wide variety of sites that cover a wide variety of topics.
Most sites are community oriented running vBulletin software for users to interact and share knowledge. Our sites range from technical like Computer Help Forums to off topic like Just BS and everything in between.
We also offer services to help get your own sites online. We offer server setups and Windows Server management as well as custom software installations.
Browse the site to check out all that Schwarz Network has to offer.