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What I want to know is, how do the spammers (and spam-bots) know where to post spam?
I have a site that is set up for a few people to discuss an upcoming project. It doesn't have a domain name as such, isn't registered at any search engines, and only 4 or 5 people even know about it. Yet we have 170 "members" who have signed up, and until recently, we had 20 spam posts a day, posting the usual stuff - porn links, viagra, etc. The only way we have stopped the spammers (sofar) is to have admin approval for new accounts. But how do they find the site in the first place?
BTW it's not a XOOPS site, it's just a PHPBB forum.