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For a little over a year now, we've been battling against spambots and spammers. It's been kind of frustrating, because it has taken a lot of the Posse members' time to chase down and delete spam postings and a lot of my time to ban the offenders.
Now, however, I believe that we've turned a corner with some improvements to the forum hosting software that we use. This appears to have stopped spambots dead in their tracks, which is a big relief.
Now that those ugly days of constant spam appear to be behind us, I feel that it is high time that we start to promote the UCC forum again. Let's attract new members.
The purpose of this thread then is to solicit ideas from forum members for how we can do that.
I'll start the list:
Now, however, I believe that we've turned a corner with some improvements to the forum hosting software that we use. This appears to have stopped spambots dead in their tracks, which is a big relief.
Now that those ugly days of constant spam appear to be behind us, I feel that it is high time that we start to promote the UCC forum again. Let's attract new members.
The purpose of this thread then is to solicit ideas from forum members for how we can do that.
I'll start the list:
- One thing I've done before is print out business cards and leave stacks of them at gun shows. The document that I printed is one that Thomas created some time ago. That document is now available here. This can be printed on ordinary business card stock easily found at Staples, Walmart, etc.[/*]