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Old 04-06-2015, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Kahuna32162 View Post
All of a sudden we are seeing a lot of new posters advertising puppies of all breeds and now drugs by mail, including medical pot. These have showed up in the classifieds as well.

Why is this happening so much and how can you improve your filtering to keep this kind of SPAM out of TOTV?
This is not happening frequently - if you are on other forums you will notice it is rare to get spam on TOTV but it happens to all sites. We follow up and ban the user and IP address.

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