Image Verification On, heheh

[Baker]

Sole turned on image verification -- you know "type the letters in the box" -- for registration.

No one noticed because we kept deleting them, but we had a pretty good flood of robo-spammers registering.

I imagine we might still get the manual spammer trying to register occasionally, but at least the rovering spammer bots won't be doing it anymore.

Yeah, no one noticed but I know Sole's removed a few of them and I've probably deleted about 100 of them.

/ end things no one would notice anyway

[=peg=]

ghe well i didnt notice.. however i was surprised this forum kept so damn clean of spam (appart from the occasional not-so-intresting-thread by actual users)

so i guess i did notice after all

[Baker]

It was "educational" looking at the information of the bots.

About 2/3 were from Russia, and after a while it didn't take long to verify whether it was a bot or not. I'd do www. theirdomain.com and if the homepage for the email address was Russian and the name looked flakey, it was a bot. A lot of them had @mail15.com at the end of the extension.

Funny how image verification increases the "costs" of spamming high enough that it is not worthwhile to spam sites with it.

[Solecord]

On my other forum I've run for years (since 1998 or 1999 or so) I've had so many spammers come on, even manual spammers started coming on. I've compiled a list of free email accounts and I generally stick that list into the "ban this email from registering" box in the forum admin page. I haven't done it here... if manual spammers start coming on, maybe I will. The list mostly consists of those overseas free email accounts... some from USA as well though.

[Solecord]

just testing... ignore...

[Baker]

if manual spammers start coming on, maybe I will. The list mostly consists of those overseas free email accounts... some from USA as well though.

It'd be interesting if manual spammers came. Someday I expect there to be more manual spammers on the 'net.

I don't think many of the 100+ spammer-wannabees were manual, the wannabees didn't even bother to active via email, hehe -- which means they can't post.